Jul 27, 2012 · After reading this discussion, I'd like to know what example sentences distinguish the meaning of the words lept, leapt, and leaped from each other?

It's sort of a silly question, but it confuses me and I have no choice but to ask. What is the most accurate way to write: He came, he saw, he conquered. Is it OK to use 'and' as in 'and he …

May 11, 2020 · In this sentence, "Over the years, they’d built snow forts together and leaped off backyard sheds together" what does "leap off" mean?

Apr 28, 2017 · I think "speeded" may have been the appropriate past-tense form for "to speed" in the past, but I wonder if it is still considered the correct form. In spoken English, one usually …

Mar 30, 2012 · How was it, I wondered, that the fact that lept is not a word escape a writer, a developmental editor, a copy editor, and a proofreader (assuming that the manuscript …

Leap was a strong verb, so its original forms was lept, but some people applied the more common weak form to produce leaped and again neither has completely overcome the other. Sweep is …

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You ommitted 'kept' and 'swept (oh, you referenced them in the 'lept' article!). In 'Commonwealth' English, 'leapt' is fairly standard - as are 'cleft' and 'reft' (both root words are rare anyway, …

- 1 because you don't cite any "authority" for this prescriptivist viewpoint. "fear of one's life" is not a recent expression, at any rate: the OED gives the example "1490 Caxton tr. Eneydos xlix. …

Nov 16, 2011 · What is the word used to describe that feeling you occasionally get while falling? If you don't know the feeling, it feels like the midsection of your gut is becoming numb and is …