European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 25, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Best seller fiction 1 the Plains of passage by Jean m. Auel last week-1 a weeks on list 6. A 2 the witching hour by Anne Rice last week 2 weeks on list 3 a 3 four past Midnight by Stephen King last week 4-weeks on list 11. A 4 Longshot by Dick Francis last week 3 weeks on list 5 5 lady Boss by Jackie Collins last week 5 weeks on list 8 6 memories of Midnight by Sidney Sheldon last week-6 weeks on list 14 7 the Ruby Knight by David Eddings last week t weeks on list 2 8 under siege by Stephen Coonts last week 11 a weeks on list 6 a 9 the first Man in Rome by Colleen Mccullough last week 9 weeks on list 6 110 Buffalo girls by Larry Mcmurtry last week 10 weeks on list 6. 1 non fiction 1 the civil War by Geoffrey c. Ward with Ric Burns and Ken Burns last week 1 weeks on list 7 2 a life on the Road by Charles Kuralt last week 8-weeks on list 2. A 3 Millie a Book As dictated to Barbara Bush last week-2 weeks on list 9 4 to knows to by to Jackson and Dick Schaap last week 13 weeks on list 2 5 by Way of deception by Victor Ostrovsky and Claire Hoy last week 3 weeks on list 9 6 Power shift by Alvin Toffler last week 7 weeks on list 4 7 get to the heart by Barbara mandrel with George Vecsey last week 4 weeks on list 10 8 an american life by Ronald Reagan first week on list 9 the cat and the curmudgeon by Cleveland armory i last week 6 weeks on list 6 10 you just done to understand by Deborah Tannen last i week 10 weeks on list 17 paperback fiction 1 Dawn by . Andrews weeks on list 4 2 daddy by Danielle Steele weeks on list 6 3 reasonable doubt by Philip Friedman weeks on list 5 4 the dark half by Stephen King weeks on list 9 5 the captive by Victoria Holt weeks on list 5. 6 the great and secret show by Clive Barker weeks on list 2 7 sorceress of Dar Shiva by David Eddings weeks on list 4 8 the bad place by Dean r. Koontz first week on list 9 oldest living Confederate widow tells All by Allan Gurganus weeks on list 9 10 Deacon one by Joe Weber weeks on list 3 paperback non-fiction1 All i really need to know i Learned in kindergarten by Robert Fulghum weeks on list 53 2 the Road less travelled by m. Scott Peck weeks on list 370 3 High treason by Robert j. Groden weeks on list 4 4 liars poker by Michael Lewis weeks on list 9 5 the Road from Coo rain by Jill Ker Conway weeks on list 11 6 fst�11 schoo Cal Dren by Tracy Kidder weeks on7 Henry and june by Anais Nin weeks on list 2 8 from Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas l. Friedman weeks on list 15 9 a Brief history of time by Stephen w. Hawking weeks on list 25 10 new kids on the Block by Lynn Goldsmith first week on list paperback miscellaneous 1 the authoritative Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson weeks on list 9 2 Weiner dog Art by Gary Larson weeks on list 3 3 the a late night with David Letterman top ten lists by David Letterman Steve of Donnell Etal weeks on list 5 4 codependent no More by Melody Beattie weeks on list 116 5 the seven habits of highly effective people by Stephen r. Covey weeks on list 5 compiled by the new York time stars and stripes Best sellersfiction1 the Plains of passage by Jean m. Auel2 four past Midnight by Stephen King 3 lady Boss by Jackie Collins 4 memories of Midnight by Sidney Sheldon 5 the stand by Stephen King 6 the general in his labyrinth by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 7 message from Nam by Danielle steel 8 Star trek prime directive by Judith and Garfied Reeves Stevens. 9 Rowan by Anne Mcgaffrey 10 under siege by Stephen Coontz non fiction 1 by Way of deception by Victor ostrovsky2 the cat and the curmudgeon by Cleveland armory 3 get to the heart by Barbara Mandrell with George Vecsey 4 Millie a Book As dictated to Barbara Bush 5 darkness visible by William Styron 6 Trump surviving at the top by Donald Trump with Charles Leerhsen 7 great Waldo search by Martin Handford 8 peril and Promise by John Chancellor 9 you just done to understand by Deborah Tannen 10 bootleggers boy by Barry Switzer with Bud Shrak misuse is a regular mistake James j. Kilpatrick Universal press Syndicate Al s foreign students have discovered a i to their dismay the English Tan. Guage has More than 300 irregular Al verbs. And through errors writers often make regular ones irregular. A for example a columnist in the Savannah a morning news last year wrote of the Cincinnati reds Pete Rose a by going to court Rose drug the situation out for six painful and revealing  the mount airy . News carried an item about a Man who kidnapped his estranged wife a the drug her from her car tied her hands and feet together and put her in the Back of a 4-wheel-drive vehicle.�?�. Now drag is not an irregular verb. Its principal parts Are drag dragged dragging just As you might expect yet i regularly get citations of a a drug As the past tense of drag a she looked like something the cat drug  the recently published random House unabridged lists a a drug As a non Standard chiefly Midland and Southern  let us stick with a Rose dragged the situation and a the drag a ged her from her  i also beseech your assistance in preserving a a sneaked As the past tense of  random House not Only sanctions a a snuck but even provides a lengthy defensive note a first recorded in writing toward the end of the 19th Century in the United states a snuck has become in recent decades a Standard variant past tense and past participle of the verb a sneak a bored by the lecture he snuck out the Side door a a snuck occurs frequently in fiction and in journalistic writing As Well As on radio and television. A snuck has occasionally been considered non Standard but it is so widely used by professional writers and educated speakers that it can no longer be so  Well this tolerant View has not snuck up on me it has sneaked up on me. I will have none of it. To my ear a a snuck has a jocular sound. It has none of the scary Stealthy furtive ring of  in a word it does no to sound sneaky. Harrumph the Columbus Ohio dispatch carried an article on Plantation life in Virginia where a cloth was weaved on  was the cloth weaved or was it Woven it is a writers Choice. My ear tells me that a the women wove cloth but a the squad car weaved through  in the passive voice i would opt for a cloth was  i cannot Tell you Why. F i have the same uncertainty about a a waked and  a columnist complained that a we Haven to Woken up to the fac that the world changed after world War  an advertisement far the vegetable juice is addressed to a the Man who Hasni to Woken up to v8.�?� my ear tells me Wake up woke up Haven to waked up yet. But if your ear prefers a a Haven to Woken up a your ear has plenty of respectable company. November 25,1990 sunday to plus c