Which word is grammatically correct?

Question

sneaked or snuck?

ie. "I (sneaked/snuck) out of bed for a snack." Which one should it be?

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Answer 1

both.

[Origin: 1590–1600; var. of ME sniken, OE snīcan to creep; c. ON snīkja to hanker after]

—Usage note First recorded in writing toward the end of the 19th century in the United States, snuck has become in recent decades a standard variant past tense and past participle of the verb sneak: Bored by the lecture, he snuck out the side door. Snuck occurs frequently in fiction and in journalistic writing as well as on radio and television: In the darkness the sloop had snuck around the headland, out of firing range. It is not so common in highly formal or belletristic writing, where sneaked is more likely to occur. Snuck is the only spoken past tense and past participle for many younger and middle-aged persons of all educational levels in the U. S. and Canada. Snuck has occasionally been considered nonstandard, but it is so widely used by professional writers and educated speakers that it can no longer be so regarded.

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Answer 2

First recorded in writing toward the end of the 19th century in the United States, snuck has become in recent decades a standard variant past tense and past participle of the verb sneak: "Bored by the lecture, he snuck out the side door." Snuck occurs frequently in fiction and in journalistic writing as well as on radio and television: "In the darkness the sloop had snuck around the headland, out of firing range." It is not so common in highly formal or belletristic writing, where sneaked is more likely to occur. Snuck is the only spoken past tense and past participle for many younger and middle-aged persons of all educational levels in the U. S. and Canada. Snuck has occasionally been considered nonstandard, but it is so widely used by professional writers and educated speakers that it can no longer be so regarded.

Answer 3

Usage Note: Snuck is an Americanism first introduced in the 19th century as a nonstandard regional variant of sneaked. But widespread use of snuck has become more common with every generation. It is now used by educated speakers in all regions, and there is some evidence to suggest that it is more frequent among younger speakers than sneaked is. Formal written English is naturally and properly more conservative than other varieties, of course, and here snuck still meets with much resistance. Many writers and editors have a lingering unease about the form, particularly if they recall its nonstandard origins. In fact, our consolidated citations, exhibiting almost 10,000 instances of sneaked and snuck, indicate that sneaked is preferred by a factor of 7 to 2. And 67 percent of the Usage Panel disapproves of snuck. Nevertheless, in recent years snuck has been quietly establishing itself in formal writing. An electronic search of a wide range of reputable publications turns up hundreds of citations for snuck, not just in sports writing but in news columns and commentary: “ He ran up huge hotel bills and then snuck out without paying ” (George Stade). “ In the dressing room beforehand, while the NBC technician was making me up, Jesse Jackson snuck up behind me and began playfully powdering my face ” (Bruce Babbitt). “ Raisa Gorbachev snuck away yesterday afternoon for a 65-minute helter-skelter tour of San Francisco ” (San Francisco Chronicle). “ The Reagan administration snuck in some illegal military assistance before that ” (New Republic). Our citation files also contain a number of occurrences of snuck in serious fiction: “ He had snuck away from camp with a cabinmate ” (Anne Tyler). “ I ducked down behind the paperbacks and snuck out ” (Garrison Keillor).

snuck ( sn¾k) v. Usage Problem 1. A past tense and a past participle of sneak . See note at sneak .

sneak ( sn¶k) v. sneaked also snuck ( sn¾k) sneak·ing sneaks v. intr.

Answer 4

Snuck is not a word. Sneaked is.

Answer 5

I sneaked out of bed

Answer 6

sneaked. snuck is not a word

Answer 7

snuck is not a proper word, sneaked is proper english.

Answer 8

i thought snuck would be correct

Answer 9

snuck

Answer 10

sneaked