Snuck or sneaked?

[nq:1]I just saw a summary of a Reuters article that said, "The long necked sea monster snuck up on victims." Don't the Brits say "sneaked" instead of "snuck" and "dragged" instead of "drug"? (as in "He drug the log over to the camp.").[/nq]
The story that ran in my newspaper was date-lined Associated Press. It was about the Dinocephalosaurus orientalis, a swimming dinosaur "that could use its

[nq:1]I just saw a summary of a Reuters article that said, "The long necked sea monster snuck up on victims." Don't the Brits say "sneaked" instead of"snuck" and "dragged" instead of "drug"? (as in "He drug the log over to thecamp.").[/nq]
The Brits use "snuck" and "drug" jocularly or when imitating Southern (or, come to think of it, any) US folk.
Cheers, Sage

[nq:1]I just saw a summary of a Reuters article that said, "The long necked sea monster snuck up on victims." Don't the Brits say "sneaked" instead of "snuck" and "dragged" instead of "drug"? (as in "He drug the log over to the camp.").[/nq]
Thirty years ago "snuck" was jocular.
A generation is probably long enough for it to have become standard, or the joke would have worn very thin.

Rushtown typed thus:
[nq:1]I just saw a summary of a Reuters article that said, "The long necked sea monster snuck up on victims." Don't the Brits say "sneaked" instead of "snuck" and "dragged" instead of "drug"? (as in "He drug the log over to the camp.").[/nq]
"snuck" has snuck unto UK English. It's not fully integrated, but it is now widely used. I was tickled by it when I encountered i

david56 filted:
[nq:1]"snuck" has snuck unto UK English. It's not fully integrated, but it is now widely used. I was tickled by it when I encountered it, working in the USA in the mid 70s, and took it home with me; I suspect others did the same.[/nq]
It was already old by then in the US...years earlier, Ray Stevens sang of Ahab the Arab, who at one point "snook around the corner"..r

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[nq:2]"snuck" has snuck unto UK English. It's not fully integrated, ... it home with me; I suspect others did the same.[/nq]
[nq:1]It was already old by then in the US...years earlier, Ray Stevens sang ofAhab the Arab, who at one point "snook around the corner"..r[/nq]
I purchased the American Heritage Dictionary (copyright 1969, 1970) because I understood it

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[nq:2]I just saw a summary of a Reuters article that ... "drug"? (as in "He drug the log over to thecamp.").[/nq]
[nq:1]"snuck" has snuck unto UK English. It's not fully integrated, but it is now widely used. I was tickled by ... the same. "drug", however has not yet become common over here. It sounds like Deputy Dawg speech. David ==[/nq]
Snuck is commo

[nq:1]Snuck is common in my area of the U.S. but drug is Southern and it sounds like Deputy Dawg, Mush Mouse speak to me too.[/nq]
My "southern" knowledge is limited to east Tennessee, but I'd like to comment about the usage of "drug" as the past tense of "drag."

In my experience, if someone there (other than a little child) is using "drug" as just mentioned, he or she is just playing

[nq:2]Snuck is common in my area of the U.S. but drug is Southern and it sounds like Deputy Dawg, Mush Mouse speak to me too.[/nq]
[nq:1]My "southern" knowledge is limited to east Tennessee, but I'd like to comment about the usage of "drug" as the ... examples, but that could lead to arguments here and possibly evenbloodshed (virtual, of course). (1) skinned: cheated, taken advantage of.[/nq]

[nq:2]Snuck is common in my area of the U.S. but drug is Southern and it sounds like Deputy Dawg, Mush Mouse speak to me too.[/nq]
[nq:1]My "southern" knowledge is limited to east Tennessee, but I'd like to comment about the usage of "drug" as the ... be your own fault for assuming that you are naturally mentally superior to any "hillbilly." (That's usually the underlying assumption.)[/nq]