Hitten, as in You’ve hitten every green light, sounds nonstandard today, but it has company. Kendall in Highland, Utah, a native Texan whose wife is from British Columbia, uses it as a past participle of hit. Charles Mackay’s 1888 A Dictionary of...
Yolani from San Diego grew up saying squoze as the past tense of squeeze, as in “I squoze some oranges,” and wants to know whether it’s a real word. The standard form for formal writing and speech is squeezed, but squoze has centuries of dialectal...

