Wednesday, May 06, 2009

Today, as I searched Facebook, I got this message:

Make sure all words are spelt correctly.

"Speak for yourself!" I thought.

Once a farm girl, always a farm girl ...

spelt: a wheat, Triticum aestivum spelta, native to southern Europe and western Asia, used chiefly for livestock feed

However, I learned that the verb "spell" has two acceptable forms of the past participle in both American and British English: the irregular form ("spelt") is supposedly more common in British English and the regular form ("spelled") is more common to American English ... although, not for me.

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