However the irregular form snuck has become quite common, especially in American English.
**** The verb sneak was used in its regular form for a long time. *** The following verbs use the standard past and participle forms (-ed) in American English. ** The verb lie in the meaning of not to tell the truth is a regular verb. The concept originates in the humanist Latin schools, where students learned verbs by chanting them in the four key forms from which all other forms can be deduced, for example: Not. Note: The words can, may and must are Modals. In language learning, the principal parts of a verb are those forms that a student must memorize in order to be able to conjugate the verb through all its forms. The following English irregular verbs are often used in the standard past and participle forms (-ed). We do not foresee all the irregular verbs ever being standardized, but some of the more minor variations in less commonly used words will probably disappear in the next genration or two. The trend, in English, and especially in American English, is to standardize the irregular verbs. The irregular verbs in a table infinitive
