• @EmpathicVagrant
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    31 year ago

    Genuine question: is is spelt or spelled, or do both work?

    • 56!
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      71 year ago

      I assumed “spelt” was wrong, but an internet search tells me both are correct.

      • @Mr_Blott
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        21 year ago

        One is “vivacious English”, the other “simplified English”

    • xor
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      61 year ago

      Use speldt to make both sides angry

    • @[email protected]
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      21 year ago

      Fun fact, related to this: learned and learnt are also both correct. I always assumed learnt was a redneck thing (I’m from the south), but it turns out the Brits use it too. Who knew?

      • @EmpathicVagrant
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        11 year ago

        So it’s lingually sound but regionally a redneck thing, then?

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          I’ve heard it used in a sentence like “When I was a boy, my daddy done learnt me a thing or two about fishin’”. Which is why it’s associated with southern slang, I think. That’s my hypothesis anyway.

          • @EmpathicVagrant
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            11 year ago

            Folks in west verginnie use words and phrases carried over from the old days when talkin like brits and Frenchmen was considered fancy, and it’s devolved into hill folk lingo. Yes, it’s technically a dialect but it’s not proper grammar in American English just because some hillfolk and southern drawl says it.

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              21 year ago

              Right, I get that it’s not grammatically correct in that context, but the word itself is valid. I had always thought “learnt” was akin to “ain’t”, but that’s not the case. Both “learned” and “learnt” are correct, but the latter is less commonly used in the US.

              • @EmpathicVagrant
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                11 year ago

                I’m just convinced my inbred ancestors out in the hills think them’s bein fancy sayin’ they learn’t how t’ do the thing frum they’d pa