If you weren't confused before...

[Rokk]

Anyone else read bass as the guitar, not the fish, in #8?

I thought that's what it was supposed to be... I didn't even think of the fish.

not me, I thought of teh fish right away, might be geographical...

[drunken_chef]

from the web:
"?Spelt? is actually the British past tense of ?to spell? while ?spelled? is the American past tense."



mapes: you should check out BBC America. there are a lot of words that are pronounced differently on opposite sides of the Atlantic. vitamin and tofu come to mind.

[paceman]

I had to reread 4 of them.


spelt?

spelt is an alternate spelling of spelled. Both mean the same thing, and both are correct, depending on who you talk to
I need to rest a spell from all this spelling spiel

Not anywhere I look.

All I find is
A hardy wheat grown mostly in Europe.

[CarbonFire]

I had to reread 4 of them.


spelt?

spelt is an alternate spelling of spelled. Both mean the same thing, and both are correct, depending on who you talk to
I need to rest a spell from all this spelling spiel

Not anywhere I look.

All I find is
A hardy wheat grown mostly in Europe.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=spell

As drunken stated, it's a localized difference, like color/colour etc.

http://www3.telus.net/linguisticsiss...anAmerican.htm
doesn't have spelt/spelled, but it's hardly an all-inclusive list

[mapes]

from the web:
"?Spelt? is actually the British past tense of ?to spell? while ?spelled? is the American past tense."



mapes: you should check out BBC America. there are a lot of words that are pronounced differently on opposite sides of the Atlantic. vitamin and tofu come to mind.

Yep stuff like aluminum