what is the past tense of the verb to spell

[Fret spider]

is it spelt or spelled.

as in i spelt your name incorrectly. or simon spelled backwards is nomis,


i dont know it is really anoyin me

[acapella]

Pretty sure it's spelled, I think spelt is like...a kind of flour.

[Kevin Taylor]

Spelled.
Spelt is a wheat or something I think?

[acapella]

Yeah, check it out. From Wikipedia:

"Spelt (Triticum spelta) was an important wheat species in parts of Europe from the Bronze Age to medieval times."

[Fret spider]

hurrar an answer.
thanks guys

[Akira]

"Spelt" is English.

"Spelled" is American English.

So either are correct.

[earthman buck]

I'm with Akira. I think it's the same kinda thing with "dreamed" and "dreamt."

[Jolly McJollyson]

Americans write "spelled," but Brits write "spelt."

[Kevin Taylor]

The way I was taught in British schools, spelt and dreamt were considered bad grammar. It'd be like using hangt instead of hanged, or walkt instead of walked.

[Akira]

The way I was taught in British schools, spelt and dreamt were considered bad grammar.

I was taught the exact opposite, strangely enough.

[Kevin Taylor]

Well.. somebody's education really smelt.

[Akira]

Well.. somebody's education really smelt.

Lmao.

Well, what do schools know anyway?

[Fret spider]

it suddenly just got complicated again

i guess its just different english

like colour and color

[acapella]

I'm with Schmange on this one, obviously. Not only does it not make sense to spell any word like that with a t instead of an ed, when would you actually say a word like that and end it in a t? It would be very akward to say stuff like "so last night I dreamt that I was in class and the teacher said I spelt something wrong so I woult lose marks". Maybe it's gramatically accepted in some circles, but it sure as hell ain't in mine!

[earthman buck]

I'm with Schmange on this one, obviously. Not only does it not make sense to spell any word like that with a t instead of an ed, when would you actually say a word like that and end it in a t? It would be very akward to say stuff like "so last night I dreamt that I was in class and the teacher said I spelt something wrong so I woult lose marks". Maybe it's gramatically accepted in some circles, but it sure as hell ain't in mine!
Malarkey! I say 'dreamt' all the time! (I'm an English sympathizer.)

[Fret spider]

well english english was invented at the beguining to be an easy language with clear rules think of go and went. it would knida make more sense to say go and goed.

it was invented a bit at a time so no wonder it has illogical things in it so english people (like me) might write spelt cos that was what it orrigonally was and americans edited the language to make it more logical. so they changed it.


if u want a real real ;logicall language learn esperanto. u can understand all the rules in about 2 hours then all u need to learn is vocab. only problem is very few people speak it.

[acapella]

Well the thing about language is, as long as we know what you're saying it doesn't really matter. I mean, no offense to you Fret Spider, but I'm going to use your post as an example. There were numerous typos and grammatical/spelling errors in it, but I still had no trouble understanding the message. The point of language is to convey a message to others, and as long as you're doing that succesfully it really doesn't matter if it's "proper". I could communicate entirely by drawing pictures and pounding on drums, and if you know what I'm telling you, does it really matter that I hit the drum with my left hand instead of my right?

[Fret spider]

I mean, no offense to you Fret Spider, but I'm going to use your post as an example. There were numerous typos and grammatical/spelling errors in it, but I still had no trouble understanding the message.

no worries none taken

yes i think i agree with you. it was just getting on my nerves because it sounded like you could use both to me. anyway even if it serves little purpose this thread was fun.

[Akira]

Inglihs Iz Wiked M8 Lol!!!!

[Jolly McJollyson]

Inglihs Iz Wiked M8 Lol!!!!
I love how I'm going from this thread to a book of literary theory and then to Ulysses again. Insane.

[Fret spider]

Inglihs Iz Wiked M8 Lol!!!!

lmao .....

[ren]

Jolly is right.... The Engliish often use '-t' instead of '-ed' - burnt, spoilt, spelt and so on. The rules are somewhat fluid, and at least as far as the English are concerned, common usage of a word / term / structure in language are enough to legitimise use.

Weirder ones are why the rubber things around your car wheels would be 'tires' in the US, and 'tyres' in the UK... I guess things like that were/are about American people laying some claim to the language by bending it a little.

Some people take this stuff very seriously. The militant types can usually be found moaning about correct use of the apostophe....

[acapella]

Funny you should say that, because I actually do bitch about that a lot.

Example:
It's CDs, not CD's!!! Get it right! *punch*

Another thing that gets me is when people use the wrong variation of your and you're, or the wrong variation of their, there, and they're. I don't know why, it just really pisses me off.

[Kevin Taylor]

The one that drives me nuts is people who don't know the difference between "to", "two" and "too" and "threw" and "through". Like... "I had to many too count so I through too of them away threw the window"

...arghhh...


...that and guys who talk like they have speech impediments.
"L8tr tht nite i tuk u two the zoo"

uh.. wud u repeat tht plz.

[alucard0941]

wtf lol, omg rotflmao!!!!!

[40ftsmurf]

I have nothing to say about the situation... If I were to say something I probably would make a grammatical or spelling error that would actually show my level of intellegence on the subject of "proper" english. I am from the Misouri Ozarks. The black round thing on our cars are pronounced "tars", not tires or tyres. See what I mean?

[Kevin Taylor]

I'm from Yorkshire so ya should have heard my accent when I first moved to Canada.
"Ah had a Baak.. and sum chocluts and froots, but ah dahn't knaw what ma toicher was laak...coo lavitat govner...cheerio..."

[ren]

The black round thing on our cars are pronounced "tars", not tires or tyres. See what I mean?

Weird that isn't it? Where did the phonetics go?

The thing you clean yourself in: Barth, Bath or baaaaaath?
Something you find funny makes you: larf, laff?

All a bit random - as long as the message comes across, I guess it's all cool....

[Kevin Taylor]

It's coolter than hell man!!

[Akira]

I'm from Yorkshire so ya should have heard my accent when I first moved to Canada.
"Ah had a Baak.. and sum chocluts and froots, but ah dahn't knaw what ma toicher was laak...coo lavitat govner...cheerio..."

I'm from right near there, Lincolnshire to be exact.

Northern accents > Southern accents.

There's no 'r' in glass.

[Akira]

Also, people who frequently use double negatives annoy me.

"I didn't do nothing" - :mad:

[hunter60]

Also, people who frequently use double negatives annoy me.

"I didn't do nothing" - :mad:

Well, if you didn't do nothing, then you don't got nothing to worry about." :D