[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >In a message dated 27/03/2007 10:02:39 GMT Daylight Time, >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >The legend on the library wall 'Spelthorne' led me to remark not 30 mins. >ago "What's the difference between "Spelt" & "Spelled?" >'Spelt' is the English form of the past tense of 'to spell' > >'Spelled' is American English, although it is beginning to pollute real >English as well.
Or, "'Spelt' is an archaic spelling, now seldom used; see also 'shoppe'" > >DaveD > >PS Why is the opposite of 'flammable' not 'inflammable'? ;-) The two opposites here used to be "inflammable" and "non-inflammable", but this was causing hazards due to the confusion that they generated, so the safety folk campaigned successfuly for them to be replaced by "flammable" and "non-flammable". Adrian Adrian Stott 07956-299966
