{"id":39773,"date":"2020-07-23T13:52:03","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T13:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=39773"},"modified":"2020-07-23T13:52:04","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T13:52:04","slug":"english-spelled-and-spelt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-spelled-and-spelt\/","title":{"rendered":"English: spelled and spelt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Tutoring English, you encounter words you&#8217;ve heard for decades, but not seen in print. The tutor mentions <em>spelt<\/em>.<\/h2>\n<p>\nI&#8217;ve heard people say <em>spelt<\/em> as past tense of <em>spell<\/em>, as in &#8220;I didn&#8217;t know that word is spelt that way.&#8221; Yet, I would&#8217;ve written it <em>spelled<\/em> rather than <em>spelt<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Spelt<\/em> is valid, though &#8211; according to Webster, it&#8217;s a British version of <em>spelled<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p>Mish, Frederic C (editor). <em>Merriam-Webster Dictionary<\/em>. Springfield: Merriam-Webster, 2004.<\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring English, you encounter words you&#8217;ve heard for decades, but not seen in print. The tutor mentions spelt. I&#8217;ve heard people say spelt as past tense of spell, as in &#8220;I didn&#8217;t know that word is spelt that way.&#8221; Yet, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-spelled-and-spelt\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">English: spelled and spelt<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1727],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spelling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39773"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39775,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39773\/revisions\/39775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}