>>>No, it wasn't a typo. It is confusion on my side. I used to write 'I read' and 'I have read', but always had difficulty writing 'I read' meaning 'I did read'. I once noticed that people SAID 'I red' and thought that it also should be written that way, so I changed it. Now you're telling me that I wrote it well and nowadays write it wrong? Good to hear. Is this confusion also occurring amongst native speakers?
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>>Yes, yes it does.
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>>As the family joke goes, I taught myself to read because my Mom wouldn't read me the comics from the paper when Dad was on TDY (Temporary Duty). They'd taught me what the letters sounded like and had started teaching me to put them together into words (I was probably around 3 at the time). To this day, I tend to pronounce words that I've not run across before as they look and spell them as they sound. This is a handy skill in other languages, but in English - not so much.
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>>I do feel sorry for anyone learning English as a second language, especially when we throw things like the 'ough' grouping at you. Is it pronounced 'ow' like bough? 'oo' like through? 'uf' like rough? OI!
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>And indicted is pronounced indited, while any of predicted, addicted etc are pronounced with -iktid. Go figure.

Exactly!