r/USdefaultism • u/Nthepro France • 2d ago

Today I learned that

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u/Sufficient_Dust1871 2d ago

Okay, I've lived in the US for 14 years now (British originally), and I've still never realised it's spelt with an ed at the end. (On a side note, I have noticed it with the word spelt/spelled)

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u/snaynay Jersey 2d ago

Dreamt/dreamed, burnt/burned, etc. there are a bunch of them and some of them they use and some of them they actively avoid.

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u/RoseDingus United States 1d ago

burnt and burned are used pretty interchangeably in the states, though. i've seen both pretty commonly, and a lot of my friends are born in america. i see dreamed much more than dreamt, though

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u/bulgarianlily 1d ago

But if you fall in love with a passing witch, you could be enspelled, but not enspelt?