Sneaked v. Snuck and Hanged v. Hung

I think that "snuck" and "hung" sound better, but "sneaked" and "hanged" are considered to be correct. Why are "snuck" and "hung" incorrect? How did these words come about?

Personally, I think it's because "sneaked" and "hanged" have awkward consonant sounds at the end of them. Therefore, people decided to change them from "weak verbs" to "strong verbs" for the sake of pronunciation.

Ryan

Ryan
My interest was peaked (not puck) by your response and I banged (not bung) my fist on the table ;)

What are you on about? I just checked my Oxford...

hang: Has two past tense and past participle forms; hanged and hung. You should use hung in general situations, as in they hung out the washing, while hanged should only be used when talking about executing someone by hanging, as in the prisoner was hanged.

sneak: pt & pp = sneaked, also N. American informal = snuck.

Also I don't think they were verbs that went from weak to strong, I'd say the opposite.

English:
Hang, Hung, Hung
German:
Haengt, hing, gehangen.

Hanged and hung have two different meanings (at least as they're generally used. "Hanged" is used when one refers to that method of execution, i.e. hanging.

"The prisoner was hanged at noon."


Hung is the normal past tense of the verb to hang.


"I hung the painting on the wall."

If the past of sit is sat, then why isn't the past of sh*t shat?

It is, technically. Since it's slang some people say "shit" as the past tense too, but techically "shat" is correct.

The cat shat on the mat is perfectly valid english ;)

Lana, sneak and hang are used in the past much more than peak and bang, although "banged" is probably said quite a bit as well. You have a good point. I don't really know why people pick some words to use over others, but to me those words have strange consonant ending sounds in the past tense. Even though I say "banged" sometimes it still sounds funny.

Ryan

Have you ever had a moment when you're thinking of a word - in your native language - and you suddenly wonder why that collection of sounds has any meaning? It's like you almost forget the word, although you know what it means...

humm.. anybody know about this..
stick - stuck - stuck
thats the correct one i think..
but then i search for the word "stucked" in the web (google)
and waah i found alot of sentences using the verb stucked..
which one is correct then.. and what is the explanation?

I've never heard "stucked" before. Maybe it's some kind of vulgar term that I'm not aware of.

Ryan

Well after doing a search for stucked, google said:

Did you mean STUCK?

Also all the sentences were things like "help I got stucked on this blabla"

I would say they were all written by foreign speakers because that is really bad english.