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Originally Posted by Lady Fitzgerald
How about the English use of spelt for spelled?
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Or, to put it another way, "spelled" is the North American version of "spelt".
One strange t/ed variant that I've come across frequently of late is on the IMDb forums, where it seems to be increasingly common to say that a certain actor was "casted" in a role (though they often spell it "roll" - I've pointed out a couple of times that the "roll" is what you do first so you'll get cast, but I don't think anyone's ever understood it).
I could be wrong, but it seems to be exclusively US posters (that I've encountered, anyway) using "casted"; is this correct in US English, does anyone know? Or is it an example of the Internet making wrong grammar right simply by how frequently it's copied and assumed to be correct by people who don't know otherwise?