Oct 11, 2018 · The past tense, and past participle of "split" is "split". I don't think that "splitted" is grammatical, though I dare say it gets used.

Jul 20, 2012 · In the sentence I have a bibliography page which I'd like to split in/into sections which would you rather use: split in or split into? Why?

Mar 24, 2013 · Does the "in" imply multiplication, in which case split in half is correct, or is it division? It sounds like the latter to me, but I've heard it used both ways.

For the most part, the words are interchangeable. Distinguishing between multiple examples of such things can be aided by their individual connotations: crack a line on the surface of something along which it has split without breaking into separate parts A crack tends to be a visible flaw that can splinter or spider into larger cracks with many smaller, attached cracks. The defining point …

What should be used in below sentence: “split” or “split up”, and why? We need to split up the background image of the website into two parts.

Jan 31, 2012 · The problem with this is that unlike the runs or scissors or the heebie-jeebies or any other example I can think of, The Splits has multiple forms of use that necessitate a singular form. No one is ever concerned about having "a run" in regard to making it to the toilet. The Splits starts out sounding wrong but then quickly devolves into being un-useable when you have to …

Then we get "... and split", which is the pun. As a pun it is doing two things at once. One of them is referencing banana splits, and the other is using split in the colloquial sense of leaving a place. This last is of course the real meaning of the expression; you're going to leave.

Every entry has a word split into syllables, and technically speaking, according to traditional rules of typesetting, you can hyphenate a word at any syllable boundary. For example in the Merriam-Webster's online dictionary, the entry for "dictionary" reads "dic·tio·nary"—so you could hyphenate anywhere there appears a centered dot.

Is there a word that specifically means: an intersection in a road or path where one road is split into three? I thought of trifurcation but am trying to find something more specific to a road or path.

That may be because I am unaware of the etymology of spitting image. My thinking is that Person A looks so much like Person B, that they have appeared to "split" from the same person, hence splitting image. Wouldn't you agree?