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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 3 of 4 1 2 3 4 Re: spelt vs spelled LukeJavan8 #198329 03/15/11 08:49 PM Joined: Nov 2010 Posts: 677 Middle Earth bexter OP addict OP bexter addict Joined: Nov 2010 Posts: 677 Middle Earth Originally Posted By: LukeJavan8 And burned and burnt. ah but burned and burnt have different meanings to me: burned - the actual burning of something - 'I've burned the cake' burnt - the item itself - 'the cakes are burnt' that is just to me though... hmmm I thought of the American/English divide but a couple of the novels were American and I know both spellings whereas most of my spellings (which are correct all you American people - our dictionary was published first! ) are only the English...we stil have felt and built so I wondered if it was just a shift to the d sound and away from the t sound...hmmm I do believe more brainwork (at least I do!) is needed... ----The next sentence is true. The previous sentence is false---- Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: spelt vs spelled BranShea #198343 03/16/11 07:34 PM Joined: Mar 2011 Posts: 3 L Lonny stranger Lonny stranger L Joined: Mar 2011 Posts: 3 Pray what are 'buns'? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: spelt vs spelled Lonny #198344 03/16/11 08:11 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Originally Posted By: Lonny Pray what are 'buns'? Buns :¬ ) formerly known as etaoin... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: spelt vs spelled bexter #198376 03/18/11 04:45 PM Joined: Mar 2011 Posts: 3 M merphd stranger merphd stranger M Joined: Mar 2011 Posts: 3 I wondered if the two spellings may have signaled different inflections: "burned," as past tense verb; "burnt" as adjective, which is how bexter used them. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: spelt vs spelled merphd #198388 03/19/11 06:10 AM Joined: Sep 2010 Posts: 1,706 down under Candy Pooh-Bah Candy Pooh-Bah Joined: Sep 2010 Posts: 1,706 down under I think you are on to something merphd its all in the way you say it. Neither word is really incorrect but for me there is a slight difference burned is still happening or recent event burnt is past occurrence. same with these pairs; burned or burnt dreamed or dreamt kneeled or knelt leaned or leant leaped or leapt learned or learnt smelled or smelt spelled or spelt spilled or spilt spoiled or spoilt Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: spelt vs spelled Candy #198392 03/19/11 10:21 AM Joined: May 2010 Posts: 963 Alaska Tromboniator old hand Tromboniator old hand Joined: May 2010 Posts: 963 Alaska Kneeled sounds wrong to me; leaped and leapt are almost interchangeable; I think I have a preference for dreamt, but whether I say dreamed or dreamt I always wonder if I've said something wrong. For the rest of your list, Candy, I would always use the -ed version. I don't object to the -t forms, nor am I uncomfortable when I find them, but to my eye and ear they seem… archaic, I suppose. They just don't live in my immediate environment. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: spelt vs spelled Tromboniator #198395 03/19/11 12:34 PM Joined: Sep 2010 Posts: 1,706 down under Candy Pooh-Bah Candy Pooh-Bah Joined: Sep 2010 Posts: 1,706 down under for me..I go with the ending in 'T' for every one, more comfortably. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: spelt vs spelled Candy #198398 03/19/11 03:25 PM Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,918 Likes: 2 Land of the Flat Water LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,918 Likes: 2 Land of the Flat Water I'm with Trom....on this one. The "t" versions look like old British poetry or something. Maybe LEAPT is OK but the others are too out of usage where I am. But then, we are all thousands of miles apart. ----please, draw me a sheep---- Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: spelt vs spelled LukeJavan8 #198399 03/19/11 04:10 PM Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,290 R'lyeh zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,290 R'lyeh Maybe LEAPT is OK What about kept and slept? I think it's just a question of spelling, not a difference between the -ing forms and the simple past. Ceci n'est pas un seing. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: spelt vs spelled zmjezhd #198400 03/19/11 04:13 PM Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,918 Likes: 2 Land of the Flat Water LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,918 Likes: 2 Land of the Flat Water Originally Posted By: zmjezhd Maybe LEAPT is OK What about kept and slept? I think it's just a question of spelling, not a difference between the -ing forms and the simple past. You're right. 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