That's What They Say

If "freeze" becomes "froze," why can't "squeeze" become "squoze?"


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This week on That's What They Say, we turn to A.A. Milne's classic children's novel, The House at Pooh Corner . We love this line from a passage in which Piglet has to squeeze himself through a letter box in order to get out of Owl's house: "Piglet squeezed and he squoze, and with one last squoze, he was out." Maybe it's just us, but we think "squoze" is a pretty great non-standard verb. Though it's tempting to categorize "squoze" as a newer addition to English, it's actually at least 200 years
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