Spring belongs in this group, as Ms Hamilton jolly well ought to know. Give me strength. Go there and you will see a neat little 2-minute video of me explaining why the time for this novel has come!
And if you support it you will get your name in the back and an invitation to the launch party. I think in this instance, of escaping custody, the vernacular wins. Has sprang ever been used in that context? No defence for taught though! As an aside is there a reason so many homonyms come in threes? By, bye,buy. Pair, pare, pear. Way, weigh, whey. Pore, poor, pour. Raise, rays, raze. Meet, meet, meat. I should have checked with the dictionary. I'll have to go and look up 'sink' and 'swim' now.
Students: Are you brave enough to let our tutors analyse your pronunciation? Thank you, Clive. Shouldn't it be "sprang"? Note above how to ask your question. No, it should not necessarily be "sprang". Both the Oxford dictionary BrE and the Merriam-Webster dictionary AmE give both "sprang" and "sprung" as correct for the past tense of "spring". Site Hint: Check out our list of pronunciation videos.
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If it's like effect and affect, then the meanings are completely different and not at all interchangeable. I think Collins tries to say the same thing. There is a tendency for strong verbs with the ring, rang, rung pattern to follow the wring, wrung, wrung pattern, often dialectally.
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