spelled or spelt?
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The spell checker corrected "spelt" to "spelled". This has been the topic of a long running argument amongst some friends, so what do you think? Spelt of Spelled? Vote 1 Spelt! :) -- David Wengier TAC ad gone wrong: "Don't fool yourself, you're a bloody idiot." Sonork ID: 100.14177 - Ch00k
I think both are correct in their contexts. eg correct "Apple is spelt A, P, P, L, E" "You have spelled Banana wrong." not correct "Apple is spelled A, P, P, L, E" "You have spelt Banana wrong." Paresh Solanki A woman drove me to drink and I didn’t even have the decency to thank her. -W.C. Fields
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What confuses me most about this is that no one has yet consulted a dictionary. spell v. spelled, or spelt 1. To name or write in order the letters constituting (a word or part of a word). 2. To constitute the letters of (a word): These letters spell animal. 3. To add up to; signify: Their unwise investment could spell financial ruin. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Further, I think it's a bit strange for the British to complain about the American's abusing the English language. The implication being that the English made the language, therefore, they are the authority. But you might want to take a look at the origins of English - and the large contributions of German and French. (Perhaps the Germans and French should complain about the horrible abuse of the German and French language by the British.) Or consider that Shakespeare would blame the English for their terrible abuse of Old English (or should I say Olde English :-D ). My two cents, uh, pence.
Reminds me of a mail I got once regarding the standardisation of the english language across europe: The European Union Commissioners have announced that an agreement has been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European communications, rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five-year phased plan for what will be known as EuroEnglish (Euro for short). In the first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft "c". Sertainly, sivil servants will resieve this news with joy. Also the hard c will be replased with "k". Not only will this klear up konfusion, but typewriters kan have one less letter. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replased by "f". This will make words like fotograf 20 per sent shorter. In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of silent "e"s in the languag is disgrasful and they would go. By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" by "z" and w by v. During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou", and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters. After zis fifz yaer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil b e no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer. ZE DREM VIL FINALI KUM TRU!!! Paresh Solanki A woman drove me to drink and I didn’t even have the decency to thank her. -W.C. Fields
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Reminds me of a mail I got once regarding the standardisation of the english language across europe: The European Union Commissioners have announced that an agreement has been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European communications, rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five-year phased plan for what will be known as EuroEnglish (Euro for short). In the first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft "c". Sertainly, sivil servants will resieve this news with joy. Also the hard c will be replased with "k". Not only will this klear up konfusion, but typewriters kan have one less letter. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replased by "f". This will make words like fotograf 20 per sent shorter. In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of silent "e"s in the languag is disgrasful and they would go. By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" by "z" and w by v. During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou", and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters. After zis fifz yaer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil b e no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer. ZE DREM VIL FINALI KUM TRU!!! Paresh Solanki A woman drove me to drink and I didn’t even have the decency to thank her. -W.C. Fields
Very Good! :-D ________________ David Wulff http://www.davidwulff.co.uk Sonork ID: 100.9977 Dave …
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Spelt is perfect for people who finished school in grade five because they had to go work in the fields. It's probably also acceptable in the USA, where the English language is raped daily. Christian The tragedy of cyberspace - that so much can travel so far, and yet mean so little. "I'm thinking of getting married for companionship and so I have someone to cook and clean." - Martin Marvinski, 6/3/2002
Christian Graus wrote: the USA, where the English language is raped daily I vote this as the Lounge's Quote Of The Day! :-D "I've read the Bible through a couple of times and it is a nice collection of morality stories and adventure fiction. Sort of like Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer except without the laughs." -- Michael P Butler 14 Mar '02
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Reminds me of a mail I got once regarding the standardisation of the english language across europe: The European Union Commissioners have announced that an agreement has been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European communications, rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five-year phased plan for what will be known as EuroEnglish (Euro for short). In the first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft "c". Sertainly, sivil servants will resieve this news with joy. Also the hard c will be replased with "k". Not only will this klear up konfusion, but typewriters kan have one less letter. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replased by "f". This will make words like fotograf 20 per sent shorter. In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of silent "e"s in the languag is disgrasful and they would go. By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" by "z" and w by v. During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou", and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters. After zis fifz yaer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil b e no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer. ZE DREM VIL FINALI KUM TRU!!! Paresh Solanki A woman drove me to drink and I didn’t even have the decency to thank her. -W.C. Fields
That's brilliant, thanks for posting it. I'm going to email it to my friends. :-D "I've read the Bible through a couple of times and it is a nice collection of morality stories and adventure fiction. Sort of like Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer except without the laughs." -- Michael P Butler 14 Mar '02
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Spelt is perfect for people who finished school in grade five because they had to go work in the fields. It's probably also acceptable in the USA, where the English language is raped daily. Christian The tragedy of cyberspace - that so much can travel so far, and yet mean so little. "I'm thinking of getting married for companionship and so I have someone to cook and clean." - Martin Marvinski, 6/3/2002
Christian Graus wrote: It's probably also acceptable in the USA, where the English language is raped daily. LMAO!!!! Good one Christian! Sorry to dissapoint you all with my lack of a witty or poignant signature.
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Brit wrote: spell v. spelled, or spelt Yeah but its one of those cases of it being in some dictionaries and not others. English has never been internationally standardized so it is still a living language :-) Regardz Colin J Davies
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****Colin Davies wrote: English has never been internationally standardized so it is still a living languag But what is generally taken to be standardised, Queens English, is the language defined by the complete Oxford English dictionary. Which I haven't had time to read yet. Sorry to dissapoint you all with my lack of a witty or poignant signature.
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I have in-fact spent many a dark and cold night fishing for smelts... Funny that I thought this fact would never intersect with CodeProject, but hey, surprise surprise. Smelt fishing is basically (to me) hanging around a river inlet with a pile of your friends, fishing nets and bags in hand, snagging hundreds and hundreds of fish moving upstream to spawn. There's always a beer and lively behavior involved. (I'm sure Chris will be reading this going 'wtf' having spent months and months in Canada (of course always in the dead of winter) I have no idea what Dave's talking about ;) ) David http://www.dundas.com
But where you really fishing for smelts? or where you really smelling for fish? Sorry to dissapoint you all with my lack of a witty or poignant signature.
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The spell checker corrected "spelt" to "spelled". This has been the topic of a long running argument amongst some friends, so what do you think? Spelt of Spelled? Vote 1 Spelt! :) -- David Wengier TAC ad gone wrong: "Don't fool yourself, you're a bloody idiot." Sonork ID: 100.14177 - Ch00k
Spelt has more British origins. American English tends more towards spelled. Tim Smith I know what you're thinking punk, you're thinking did he spell check this document? Well, to tell you the truth I kinda forgot myself in all this excitement. But being this here's CodeProject, the most powerful forums in the world and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question, Do I feel lucky? Well do ya punk?
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Spelt is a grain or wheat type grown in Europe. Also Spelt use to be in the Dictionaries as the imperitave and Past participle of to spell. I guess it became unpopular with English Language teachers because its no less regular than a lot of verbs. Regardz Colin J Davies
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****Colin Davies wrote: Spelt use to be in the Dictionaries Really? And I thought I'd memorized the whole thing. I guess I'd better read it again (sigh)
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And this is after you've cut a hole in the ice, right? cheers, Chris Maunder
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Reminds me of a mail I got once regarding the standardisation of the english language across europe: The European Union Commissioners have announced that an agreement has been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European communications, rather than German, which was the other possibility. As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five-year phased plan for what will be known as EuroEnglish (Euro for short). In the first year, "s" will be used instead of the soft "c". Sertainly, sivil servants will resieve this news with joy. Also the hard c will be replased with "k". Not only will this klear up konfusion, but typewriters kan have one less letter. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replased by "f". This will make words like fotograf 20 per sent shorter. In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of silent "e"s in the languag is disgrasful and they would go. By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" by "z" and w by v. During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou", and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters. After zis fifz yaer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil b e no mor trubls or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech ozer. ZE DREM VIL FINALI KUM TRU!!! Paresh Solanki A woman drove me to drink and I didn’t even have the decency to thank her. -W.C. Fields
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The spell checker corrected "spelt" to "spelled". This has been the topic of a long running argument amongst some friends, so what do you think? Spelt of Spelled? Vote 1 Spelt! :) -- David Wengier TAC ad gone wrong: "Don't fool yourself, you're a bloody idiot." Sonork ID: 100.14177 - Ch00k
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And this is after you've cut a hole in the ice, right? cheers, Chris Maunder
Nah, that's a whole different kind of adventure. David http://www.dundas.com