BS: Sqoose/sqooze

Subject: BS: Sqoose/sqooze
From: skipy
Date: 04 May 05 - 06:11 PM

There should be a word for squeezing in the the past!
e.g.    sqoose / sqooze!
"He sqooze my left pap"
skipy

Subject: RE: BS: Sqoose/sqooze
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 May 05 - 06:16 PM

Squeeze, squoose, squooze.

Where's the problem?

Subject: RE: BS: Sqoose/sqooze
From: jacqui.c
Date: 04 May 05 - 07:07 PM

I think it should be 'squoze'.

Whats the past tense of snooze?

Subject: RE: BS: Sqoose/sqooze
From: Leadfingers
Date: 04 May 05 - 07:08 PM

Past tense of Sqeeze is Squoze !!

Plural of mouse is mice so plural of house is hice !

Subject: RE: BS: Sqoose/sqooze
From: Bob Bolton
Date: 04 May 05 - 07:17 PM

Hey Leadfingers!

You want consistency ... don't speak (or write) English.

Regard(les)s,

Bob

Subject: RE: BS: Sqoose/sqooze
From: Ebbie
Date: 04 May 05 - 07:17 PM

Do you say something 'ized' out of the tube? You'd have to, if snooze becomes 'snized'.

Subject: RE: BS: Sqoose/sqooze
From: Peace
Date: 04 May 05 - 08:19 PM

Tough, though, bough, through. Right.

Subject: RE: BS: Sqoose/sqooze
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 04 May 05 - 09:35 PM

Everyone knows the past tense of squeeze is squoze. More often not recognized is that the past perfect us squuze.

"Please squeeze it."

"She squoze it."

"It was squuze."

At least in my neighborhood.

John

Subject: RE: BS: Sqoose/sqooze
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 May 05 - 09:39 PM

So then, what do you do about snoose?

Subject: RE: BS: Sqoose/sqooze
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 04 May 05 - 09:53 PM

Jacqui asked:

Whats the past tense of snooze?

"Done snoze."

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: Sqoose/sqooze
From: Bill D
Date: 04 May 05 - 10:45 PM

ok, you've done well...now do 'slide'

Subject: RE: BS: Sqoose/sqooze
From: Peace
Date: 04 May 05 - 11:03 PM

Snoose? Ya chew it.

Subject: RE: BS: Sqoose/sqooze
From: Peace
Date: 04 May 05 - 11:03 PM

Then spit lots.

Subject: RE: BS: Sqoose/sqooze
From: Peace
Date: 04 May 05 - 11:04 PM

All those things about them tenses: who'd a thunk it?

Subject: RE: BS: Sqoose/sqooze
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 04 May 05 - 11:08 PM

"ed" is always a handy suffix to tack onto words rather than going through these painful contortions. (Simplify when you can!)

An English Major

Subject: RE: BS: Sqoose/sqooze
From: Gurney
Date: 05 May 05 - 06:58 AM

You lot are determined to confuse Skipy, aren't you!

Don't you listen to them, lad. The word you want is squeezed, and always has been ever since Shakespeare or someone else invented it.

Boring, conventional, English-English.

Subject: RE: BS: Sqoose/sqooze
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 05 May 05 - 07:16 AM

Snooze, snoozed, snoozer, snoozing.
Squeeze, squeezed, squeezer, squeezing.
Booze, boozed, boozer, boozing.

Subject: RE: BS: Sqoose/sqooze
From: GUEST,JennyO
Date: 05 May 05 - 11:59 AM

ride, rode, ridden
slide, slode, slidden
tide, tode, tidden
wide, wode, widden
hide, hode, hidden

wake, woke, woken
take, toke, token
shake, shoke, shoken
make, moke, moken
bake, boke, boken

fly, flew, flown
buy, bew, bown
try, trew, trown
cry, crew, crown
lie, lew, lown

Subject: RE: BS: Sqoose/sqooze
From: Bill D
Date: 05 May 05 - 01:15 PM

"He coulda made it if he'd a slud, but he didn't, so the runners go back to their respectable bases"

Dizzy Dean, as an announcer commenting on a play"

Subject: RE: BS: Sqoose/sqooze
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 05 May 05 - 01:20 PM

STilly River Sage contributed:

"ed" is always a handy suffix to tack onto words rather than going through these painful contortions.

Spoilsport!

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: Sqoose/sqooze
From: Bill D
Date: 05 May 05 - 01:24 PM

"He coulda made it if he'd slided..."

Subject: RE: BS: Sqoose/sqooze
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 05 May 05 - 03:20 PM

..."if he'd of slidden" ????

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: Sqoose/sqooze
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 May 05 - 03:59 PM

In that case, I think "had slided" is correct, don't you? Past tense, though since he's suggesting something that could have happened in the past but didn't, then perhaps you're looking at the past perfect stuff, or past participle? I've forgotten most of that now. Time to resort to the Harbrace College Handbook.

For what it's worth, to play grammar games is one thing, but in the spoken word and in dialog in novels or drama, it doesn't do to try to dot every "i" and cross every "t" because it just doesn't sound natural. It's an academic exercise for pedants (and that last statement is tautological, isn't it?).

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Sqoose/sqooze
From: GUEST,MBSLynne
Date: 05 May 05 - 04:01 PM

If he eslid.

Subject: RE: BS: Sqoose/sqooze
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 May 05 - 04:38 PM

Thread drift: Here's a little academic humor that makes the rounds about this time of the semester (finals are ending this week).

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Sqoose/sqooze
From: Peace
Date: 05 May 05 - 04:56 PM

Avoid trying to teach the difference between lie and lay to teenagers. Accept poor conjugations. They will learn to deal with the verbs and their respective transitivities in due course. Puberty is NOT the time to deal with it all.

Subject: RE: BS: Sqoose/sqooze
From: Ron Davies
Date: 07 May 05 - 06:27 PM

SRS--

The "Dead Grandmother crisis" is classic. Never saw it before. It's had a lot of resonance with folks I've shown it to. Thanks so much.

Subject: RE: BS: Sqoose/sqooze
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 May 05 - 01:33 AM

You're welcome!