Just finished a New York Times best-selling novel where on page 233 I read:

Two weeks before I found myself back in my old life, Henry snuck up on me in the kitchen.

You grammar pundits are saying, “Why didn’t her editor catch that?”

I’m saying, “I’m glad the editor didn’t.”

I know you’re supposed to use sneaked instead of snuck, hanged instead of hung, but I’ve always thought snuck and hung sounded better.

Here’s what editor and self-proclaimed grammar nerd, Thomas McAllister says,

If you’re wearing blue-jeans and sneakers, snuck is fine; if you’re wearing a tuxedo or gown, stick with sneaked.

I guess I’m more a blue jeans kinda guy.

How ’bout you?

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