>>>>Incidentally, in English English a TV program, or program of events, is spelt "programme" but for a computer we use the American spelling. Still there are English who incorrectly refer to "comnputer programmes".
>>>>ps You've run it through the spellchecker.
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>>>You do have a funny language over there. Here we'd say "spelled", instead of "spelt". An what's up with that 'English English' ? Shouldn't it be English² ?
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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 English²?
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>Isn't 'spelt' some kind of grain ? <s>

Yes, and 'smelt' is a kind of fish. I can imagine how confusing a conversation could become.