Speeded vs. Sped - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
So sped has been preferred over speeded for as long as the corpus data goes back. Generally speaking, irregular verbs tend to become regular over time, rather than the other way round, though the latter is not unheard of, either. However, the more heavily used an irregular verb is, the less likely it is to change.

Is the correct usage to say "speed passed" or "speed past"
I will speed past the cop. 'will speed' - is the verb phrase. 'past' - is an adverb meaning - 'to pass from one side to another' How will you speed? quickly? slowly? or past? 'to pass-passed' is a verb. You have finished the verb phrase with 'speed'. The next item is an adverb. 'past' (adverb, adjective, preposition) and 'passed' (past tense of to pass) are two words that are often mistaken ...

How would you describe a car kicking up clouds of dust as an adverb of ...
In English, we tend to relate to the cause of something (cause and effect). Hence your car kicking up clouds of dust. But this is not the only way to describe the scene. We can also use (effect and implied cause). A cloud of dust hung above a distant road, as a/the black car sped towards the city.

Speed, rate, pace, tempo: what's the difference?
Very roughly, "speed" is the distance traveled per unit time, while "pace" is the number of operations (which may be, eg, footsteps) that occur per unit time. "Rate" is kind of like speed, only measuring some other quantity (eg, liters volume) per unit time. But all three tend to be used very loosely and often interchangeably, and each may be used with different (and likely more precise ...

Why has the "plague" on our houses become a "pox?"
I am sped:——Is he gone and hath nothing?" That first instance ("a plague on both the houses") remained unchanged from the first folio in the 1623 edition, while the two subsequent instances of "A pox o' both your houses" became "A plague o' both your houses." Excellent observation, Richard Lesh! +1.

Which is the correct past tense of "spin": "span" or "spun"?
Span is an older strong past tense form of spin — this is the past tense form that existed in the older Germanic ancestors of English. In German, for example, the past tense of spinnen is still spann. In English, span has mostly fallen out of use in favor of spun for both the past participle and simple past forms. This is a form of paradigm leveling. It has occurred in other words like sting ...

etymology - What is the origin of “call a spade a spade” and does it ...
Now that we know how to punctuate the phrase “call a spade a spade” I am curious where it originated and what the original meaning was. Also, the term “spade” can have negative racial connotations...

etymology - Why do they call a murder a "red ball" case? - English ...
During the breakout from Normandy in the summer of 1944 (WWII), “The Red Ball Express” was the nickname given the transportation units that sped supplies from the beachheads and other captured ports to the increasingly distant fighting units.

What is a less offensive synonym for "retarded"?
Somebody needs to rephrase the title of this question to, say: What is a better way to say, "Man, I'm so retarded". Too many people are misunderstanding the question as is.

word choice - What types of sounds do cars make? - English Language ...
Modern cars aren't supposed to make much noise at all. There's the comfort of travellers and the general public near the highway to consider, not to mention the fact that fuel economy implies aerodynamic body shape. At most, what we're looking for is something like "muted hum".