Surely no-one could make a longer thread out of this one....but I'll wait and see.....
Sorry for the thread drift, but just responding to the previous post and helping to confound Wander00
I agree with Ghengis, but as English is a steadily evolving language, things do change (not always for the better). This is the consensus on the Web (so it must be true
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In American and Canadian English, spelt means exclusively a hardy wheat grown mostly in Europe, and the verb spell makes spelled in its past-tense and past-participial forms. In varieties of English from outside North America, spelt and spelled both work as past-tense and past-participial forms of spell. They are interchangeable, and both are in common use.
British and Australian writers apparently make no distinction between spelled and spelt, using them as both past participles and past-tense forms of spell.
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