Your Shout

Daily MirrorJune 06, 2009

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jI THINK while I slept the English language underwent an overhaul! The words "leapt", "knelt" and "spelt" have disappeared. When reading an article or novel, now I find that "he leaped", "he kneeled", and even a question on your excolleague Andrew Castle's game show Divided asked "Which word has been spelled properly?" Eh? I even had to check in a dictionary to make sure I wasn't going mad.

These words did exist and they were called "past tense". Come to think of it, perhaps my first sentence should have read: I think while I sleeped the...

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