Can I assume you are not edumacated or well paid

Full marks for spotting the own goal. I like to assume people are more tolerant than I am...

For the record. I am not well paid, and don't have a degree, though I am educated and so should know better. (Comma splice noted in that sentence)

hells bells here we go again, someone always has to be picky I make more mistakes than George Bush and dont give a dam. I skipped school and ended up a dumb son of a bitch but I only have my self to blame. I get on with it and do my best thats why some of us get spelling wrong but we do get better over the years and some like me take longer (self taught ya know)

That's what I thought too.

Never tried it, which cheese would you suggest?

We still understand you Kate (well most of the time anyway)

I must be going mad. I can even understand most of Kate's posts now.

Sorry Kate, but in the early days I was mostly totally mystified!

How to win friends and influence people.

Of course, one could always use the spell-checker function ......

Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea,
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight for it two say,
Weather eye and wring oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long,
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.

To rite with care is quite a feet
Of witch won should bee proud,
And wee mussed dew the best wee can,
Sew flaw's are knot aloud.

Eye have run this poem threw it
Your sure reel glad two no,
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.

-Sauce unknown

Exactly Morwenna.

Just because something is spelt correctly, doesn't mean it makes sense.

BTW. Should I be using spelt or spelled? I say the former by my spell checker says the latter.

cheddar goes well, but I prefer a nice creamy Danish blue. My 5-year-old likes it with vache-qui-rit, though that's a bit cloying for me. Must be crunchy peanut butter.

Kate, your posts illustrate how spelling doesn't really matter when you know how to use language to paint a picture. You punctuate with emoticons which means that there isn't an endless stream of text. I don't think of your posts as full of errors, more a joy to read, a breath of fresh air.

Maybe you could teach us all Katespeak?

sorry - off topic

Oak - NICE CAR!!!! glad it all arrived ok

Current usage favours spelled. It's the same with while and whilst. Whilst is perfectly acceptable but regarded as old-fashioned. I use it.

Either is correct. "Spelled" seems to have greater currency in American usage (is quoted first in Webster) while "spelt" seems to have the edge in British usage. There are a few other verbs with the same issue: learnt/learned is a good example. Some have taken the -t ending as the participle and the -ed as the imperfect tense, though they're still interchangeable in some usages: the fire burned brightly; the sausages were burnt to a crisp.

In Canada it is the latter.

Edit: I see if I had read down to the bottom of the thread I would have seen Oakvillian's excellent reply.

I guess it's partly when you were taught. Thanks Souv.

You and the wife must have taken the same cooking lessons.