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04 May 05 - 06:11 PM (#1478245) Subject: BS: Sqoose/sqooze From: skipy There should be a word for squeezing in the the past! e.g. sqoose / sqooze! "He sqooze my left pap" skipy |
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04 May 05 - 06:16 PM (#1478248) Subject: RE: BS: Sqoose/sqooze From: Rapparee Squeeze, squoose, squooze. Where's the problem? |
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04 May 05 - 07:07 PM (#1478287) Subject: RE: BS: Sqoose/sqooze From: jacqui.c I think it should be 'squoze'. Whats the past tense of snooze? |
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04 May 05 - 07:08 PM (#1478290) Subject: RE: BS: Sqoose/sqooze From: Leadfingers Past tense of Sqeeze is Squoze !! Plural of mouse is mice so plural of house is hice ! |
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04 May 05 - 07:17 PM (#1478303) Subject: RE: BS: Sqoose/sqooze From: Bob Bolton Hey Leadfingers! You want consistency ... don't speak (or write) English. Regard(les)s, Bob |
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04 May 05 - 07:17 PM (#1478304) Subject: RE: BS: Sqoose/sqooze From: Ebbie Do you say something 'ized' out of the tube? You'd have to, if snooze becomes 'snized'. |
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04 May 05 - 08:19 PM (#1478344) Subject: RE: BS: Sqoose/sqooze From: Peace Tough, though, bough, through. Right. |
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04 May 05 - 09:35 PM (#1478399) Subject: RE: BS: Sqoose/sqooze From: JohnInKansas 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 |
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04 May 05 - 09:39 PM (#1478408) Subject: RE: BS: Sqoose/sqooze From: Rapparee So then, what do you do about snoose? |
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04 May 05 - 09:53 PM (#1478421) Subject: RE: BS: Sqoose/sqooze From: Uncle_DaveO Jacqui asked: Whats the past tense of snooze? "Done snoze." Dave Oesterreich |
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04 May 05 - 10:45 PM (#1478455) Subject: RE: BS: Sqoose/sqooze From: Bill D ok, you've done well...now do 'slide' |
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04 May 05 - 11:03 PM (#1478475) Subject: RE: BS: Sqoose/sqooze From: Peace Snoose? Ya chew it. |
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04 May 05 - 11:03 PM (#1478476) Subject: RE: BS: Sqoose/sqooze From: Peace Then spit lots. |
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04 May 05 - 11:04 PM (#1478477) Subject: RE: BS: Sqoose/sqooze From: Peace All those things about them tenses: who'd a thunk it? |
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04 May 05 - 11:08 PM (#1478481) Subject: RE: BS: Sqoose/sqooze From: Stilly River Sage "ed" is always a handy suffix to tack onto words rather than going through these painful contortions. (Simplify when you can!) An English Major |
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05 May 05 - 06:58 AM (#1478638) Subject: RE: BS: Sqoose/sqooze From: Gurney 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. |
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05 May 05 - 07:16 AM (#1478641) Subject: RE: BS: Sqoose/sqooze From: Georgiansilver Snooze, snoozed, snoozer, snoozing. Squeeze, squeezed, squeezer, squeezing. Booze, boozed, boozer, boozing. |
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05 May 05 - 11:59 AM (#1478745) Subject: RE: BS: Sqoose/sqooze From: GUEST,JennyO 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 |
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05 May 05 - 01:15 PM (#1478778) Subject: RE: BS: Sqoose/sqooze From: Bill D "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" |
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05 May 05 - 01:20 PM (#1478783) Subject: RE: BS: Sqoose/sqooze From: Uncle_DaveO STilly River Sage contributed: "ed" is always a handy suffix to tack onto words rather than going through these painful contortions. Spoilsport! Dave Oesterreich |
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05 May 05 - 01:24 PM (#1478787) Subject: RE: BS: Sqoose/sqooze From: Bill D "He coulda made it if he'd slided..." |
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05 May 05 - 03:20 PM (#1478870) Subject: RE: BS: Sqoose/sqooze From: Uncle_DaveO ..."if he'd of slidden" ???? Dave Oesterreich |
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05 May 05 - 03:59 PM (#1478897) Subject: RE: BS: Sqoose/sqooze From: Stilly River Sage 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 |
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05 May 05 - 04:01 PM (#1478898) Subject: RE: BS: Sqoose/sqooze From: GUEST,MBSLynne If he eslid. |
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05 May 05 - 04:38 PM (#1478933) Subject: RE: BS: Sqoose/sqooze From: Stilly River Sage Thread drift: Here's a little academic humor that makes the rounds about this time of the semester (finals are ending this week). SRS |
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05 May 05 - 04:56 PM (#1478947) Subject: RE: BS: Sqoose/sqooze From: Peace 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. |
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07 May 05 - 06:27 PM (#1480239) Subject: RE: BS: Sqoose/sqooze From: Ron Davies 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. |
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08 May 05 - 01:33 AM (#1480368) Subject: RE: BS: Sqoose/sqooze From: Stilly River Sage You're welcome! |