[hyteckit]

I'm just wondering which spelling do you guys use: spelled or spelt. What about misspelled versus misspelt?

Do you guys ever pronoun "spelled" as "spelt"?

What about:

dreamed versus dreamt
burned versus burnt
sleeped versus slept (whoever uses sleeped?)


I grew up in the US, but I tend to say burnt, dreamt, and spelt just as I would say slept.

I slept like a baby.
I dreamt about you last night.
My toast is burnt to a crisp.

I tend to write "spelled", but pronoun it "spelt".

[Eriamjh]

Spelt is listed as chiefly British in my Dashboard Dictionary, but I don't consider it a proper word in the US.

[moonmonkey]

A lot of these things will be corrected (or agreed) when the English Language is ratified in 2012 and UK and Australia / NZ accept US English spellings in Schools (with a few exceptions like "Thru and "Phaze").

[tooki]

Originally Posted by moonmonkey 

... US English spellings in Schools (with a few exceptions like "Thru and "Phaze").

Well those aren't correct US English, either. If you wrote that in a US school, it would be marked as wrong.

The Rest of the English Speaking World gets this hard-on for calling things "American" that are really just wrong. My mom -- an English teacher -- deals with that prejudice all the time.

[tooki]

Originally Posted by hyteckit 

1. Do you guys ever pronoun "spelled" as "spelt"?
2. dreamed versus dreamt
3. burned versus burnt
4. sleeped versus slept (whoever uses sleeped?)

1. spelled
2. I use both, not sure why!
3. Depends -- I use one as the simple past, the other as the past participle. E.g. "I burned the toast, so now the toast is burnt.
4. slept -- sleeped is not a word.

[moonmonkey]

Originally Posted by tooki 

The Rest of the English Speaking World gets this hard-on for calling things "American" that are really just wrong

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[hyteckit]

I'm just wondering if people actually write "dreamed" but pronounce it "dreamt".

Or write "misspelled", but actually pronounce it "misspelt".

Cause people hear it and say it one way, and write it or spell it in another way.

According to webster dictionary, "dreamed" can be pronounce 'drem(p)t' or 'dremd'.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dreamed

[Jawbone54]

I tend to write "dreamed," but pronounce it "dree-ummed."

Never allow a Southerner to participate in these threads.

[Oisín]

Originally Posted by moonmonkey 

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If I’m talking to a Brit (i.e., in Britspeak), I’ll say ‘dreamt’, ‘(mis)spelt’, ‘burnt’, ‘knelt’, etc.
If I’m talking to a USer (i.e., in Americospeak), I’ll say ‘dreamed’, ‘(mis)spelled’, ‘burned’, ‘kneeled’, etc.

I’d always write the British forms, since my orthography of choice is quite conservatively British. I do have a feeling an occasional ‘dreamed’ or ‘(mis)spelled’ might sneak its way into my writing, though, if I’m not careful.

[slugslugslug]

I think I intermix "dreamed" and "dreamt" at random. I don't think I actually use either much, though. I often end up describing my dreams by starting out "I had this dream where…"

I think I only use "burnt" as an adjective, not a general past participle. I burned the toast, and now it's burnt. But I've burned many toasts in my day, or I got burned by that shady car dealer.

I only use "spelt" to refer to the grain. I don't think I realized it was all that common in Britain as the past tense of "spell". Do they use both over there, or is "spelt" predominant?

[Oisín]

^ Both.