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>>I think we can say "spelled" too but it sounds funny to the English ear. We also say "smelt" from "smell", but, of course, not "telt" from "tell", and to smelt is also to melt metal.
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>>Don't the old cowboys say "This man come for me with a knife and ah kilt him"? :-)
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>>Why English English? Cos I was talking to a non-native speaker and to distinguish between that and US (pidgin) English.
>>But why English
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>Isn't 'spelt' some kind of grain ? <s>
So it is. I'd never heard of it before today. :-)
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
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