On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 22:44 +0100, Christopher Swift <christopher.sw...@linux.com>: > Alan, since we've gone onto the topic of both spelling and grammar, > you will find that according to the Oxford English Dictionary, the > past participle of the verb to spell is indeed "spelt". We are not > living in America on this thread. View here as an example of the > usage of the verb to spell in the past particple. > http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutwords/palindromes?view=uk > I do agree however with the points regarding apostrophes. > Regards, > Chris.
Actually, the possessive pronoun WAS spelled with an apostrophe (which is quite logical, since others are) until the contraction for 'it is' became unavoidably common. Eighteenth-century printers wrote it with one; I know this because I recently read the facsimile edition of Bishop George Berkeley's "Alciphron" (1735) on Google Books, and there it was. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
