Thread: How do Americans feel about UK spelling?
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Old 10-13-2010, 03:46 PM   #287
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
That's interesting. The past tense of "lead" is always "led" in British English.
When anomalies like that occur I just revert to "Amalgamated Rural English" and say either "leadid" or "follerd" as in:

He was told to lead the troops into the canyon. He leadid them down the path, and they follerd his lead.
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