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# Lovely.
Is it correctly spelt cats and cocktails time?

(I helped save b3ta! Wasp Box like a nervous random stranger at a glory hole, Tue 1 Apr 2008, 14:06, archived)
# is "spelt" a word?
(I helped save b3ta! Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE, Tue 1 Apr 2008, 14:10, archived)
# British English!
Past tense of "spell".
(I helped save b3ta! Xenctuary ~xenc., Tue 1 Apr 2008, 14:14, archived)
# Yes, past tense or past participle of spell

(I helped save b3ta! Wasp Box like a nervous random stranger at a glory hole, Tue 1 Apr 2008, 14:16, archived)
# no it's not.
Spelt: (n) A hardy wheat grown mostly in Europe.
(I helped save b3ta! Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE, Tue 1 Apr 2008, 14:20, archived)
# What about smelt? As in he who smelt it dealt it?
(I helped save b3ta! Geoff the Clownfish You know Myra, some people might think you're cute, Tue 1 Apr 2008, 14:46, archived)
# The past tense of spell is "spelled"
spelt isn't even on thesaurus.com.
So I suppose the pedantic answer is no it's not the right word to use even though it's common parlance.
(I helped save b3ta! Flowerpot No longer has the vapours thanks to DTH, Tue 1 Apr 2008, 14:22, archived)
#
www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/spelt?view=uk
(I helped save b3ta! my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Tue 1 Apr 2008, 14:25, archived)
# I stand by what I said
It got into the OED because if any word is "adopted" and is in common use it ends up there.
So you are right too and I am a pedant.
(I helped save b3ta! Flowerpot No longer has the vapours thanks to DTH, Tue 1 Apr 2008, 14:33, archived)
# Fair enough.
I don't worry too much about the origins of words, so long as everyone knows what's meant by it.
But yes, you're probably right.
(I helped save b3ta! my other username is a porsche , posting shit pictures so you don't have to, Tue 1 Apr 2008, 14:36, archived)
# it's in dictionary.com
why look it up in a thesaurus rather than a dictionary?

And I can assure you, it's not a recent addition to the language through common usage.
(I helped save b3ta! Wasp Box like a nervous random stranger at a glory hole, Tue 1 Apr 2008, 14:52, archived)
# But it's not real...
...if it's not in the Thesaurus!
(I helped save b3ta! Xenctuary ~xenc., Tue 1 Apr 2008, 18:15, archived)
# yay
(I helped save b3ta! mongychops, Tue 1 Apr 2008, 14:14, archived)
# Y E S !
shaken not stirred!
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