Anonymous wrote:I know there are those who will possibly think this is a trivial post, but I find it a bit irritating to continually see this word spelt wrongly. A word search reveals it used 36 times on this forum. Please make somebody happy and spell it as it is in the dictionary - definitely
Dear Guest...far be it for me to question someone's spelling, but for the life of me I cannot find the word "spelt" in the dictionary. Should it have been "spelled" and not "spelt". To take this a bit further or farther as the case may be, I noticed that the word whisle is used quite often (another word I cannot find in the dictionary) instead of while. Maybe you can enlighten this American on these two words.
Try looking up the the Oxford Dictionary, where 'spelt' is seen to be the past participle of 'spell'. The word whisle I am not familiar with, so I cannot enlighten you there.
However, since I am in a benevolent mood I will, on this occasion, forgive an American.
Sorry Digger, its either the st-ut-ut-er, or the influnce of alcohol, or the prospect of crossing swords with an old adversary, now posting under a new nom de plume, that has me so excited