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Wait, English has two different verbs "to sneak"?
Yeah, but people will look at you weird if you use sneaked in serious contexts.
I mean, OC implies that "sneaked" and "snuck" have different meanings
Might be a regional thing, but in the US you only hear snuck unless the person is trying to be cutesy, like pretending to be a cat.
Yeah, so far I've also only heard snuck.
More than that. One can creep about, or flit stealthily from place to place.
I'm sure there's more.
Nono, those are synonyms of " to sneak". He is saying that sneak has two different past tenses, depending on the meaning.
Oh I understand now that I misunderstood.
Transitive vs intransitive, I guess
That would be an absolute anomaly in English, as far as I know.
Ah yes, because English is such a structured and regular language otherwise
I think you conflate irregular orthography and irregular grammar or conjugation paradigms.
Like it's pretty regular otherwise.