Barnyard BOb wrote:

Yet another example of a 'strong verb' past form. It is the past
tense and past participle of misspell. Apart from dialectal
preferences, it is equal in meaning to the form misspell in all ways.

British English shows a preference for retaining strong verb forms
(burnt, learnt, spelt, dreamt, spoilt etc). American English shows a
preference for ignora... I'm mean simplification (burned, learned
etc).

I had a similar problem with an English prof when I was in college. I
used "learnt" in an essay and she marked it wrong. Being the lazy bum
that I am, if WordPerfect didn't flag it as wrong, it was good enough
for me. I insisted I was right and she looked it up to prove me wrong
only to find I was right. Some college profs get a god complex and have
a hard time handling being proved wrong...

Tony