BlueSkyNick
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YAUGHT is definitely a new one on me.
I seen it spelt wrongly lots of times but ........
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Greenheart
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Is it the salty, time-worn, sailing version of YOGHURT? In the same way 'fore castle' became fo'c'stle...
...shouting down to SWMBO in a gale, the skipper was heard to truncate his breakfast request..."pass me a strawberry yaght, lovey".
...shouting down to SWMBO in a gale, the skipper was heard to truncate his breakfast request..."pass me a strawberry yaght, lovey".
prv
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Is it the salty, time-worn, sailing version of YOGHURT? In the same way 'fore castle' became fo'c'stle...
...shouting down to SWMBO in a gale, the skipper was heard to truncate his breakfast request..."pass me a strawberry yaght, lovey".
Not sure there's anything salty-sailory about a strawberry yoghurt however you spell it
More than "yacht", it's the way people tend to mangle "sikaflex" that gets me.
Pete
Blueboatman
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Maybe the owner was wind caught, got fraught, wrote Yaught? Sounds quite posh
Greenheart
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I've been spared that one. How do they get it wrong? Lemme guess...silk-a-flex? Bloomin' illy-trits...
mjcoon
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I haven't seen that either. Looks very like "fraught" which might be a link, but then that's not pronounced "frot"...
Mike.
Greenheart
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Good gracious! Frot? Go carefully, now. Look up "frottage" before you continue. Not a word you hear every day, and possibly just as well...
macd
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prv
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I've been spared that one. How do they get it wrong? Lemme guess...silk-a-flex? Bloomin' illy-trits...
Getting "silk" in there is quite common, yes, but they usually manage to get other bits wrong as well. Obviously I'm too well-mannered to comment except in a spelling pedantry thread like this one
My Dad invariably says it as "silk-a-set", I don't know why.
Pete
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Nobody else has risen to the temptation so I will. I was always taught that spelt is a type of grain and spelled is the past participle of the verb to spell. Reinforced by the pronunciation which for me always has a D at the end of the word.
Dont bother quoting the dictionaries back at me - these days they follow fashion. They are quite capable of accepting yot rather than yacht.
What were you taught in school about the spelling of to spell.?
Dont bother quoting the dictionaries back at me - these days they follow fashion. They are quite capable of accepting yot rather than yacht.
What were you taught in school about the spelling of to spell.?
macd
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You mean is spelt spelt spelt?
BlueSkyNick
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To be perfectly honest, I knew it was wrong as soon as I posted.... akin to learnt instead of learned.
VicS
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In my 1949 revised 3rd edition ( 1941) Little Oxford Dictionary, which was the one I had at school both 'spelt" and "spelled" are given as past tense and past participle of the verb to spell so I gues either would have been accepted as correct even in those far off days!
Learnt and learned likewise alternatives
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johnalison
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I don't object to "spelt" but I do get confused by people who set off in a dingy.
benjenbav
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nathanlee
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I've seen that on ebay a lot. People on ebay are generally a bit dense, from my experience. It is a rare joy to find somebody who is decent and intelligent, and a pleasure to deal with. Good old ebay.
mjcoon
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Good gracious! Frot? Go carefully, now. Look up "frottage" before you continue. Not a word you hear every day, and possibly just as well...
I didn't need to look it up to know it was rude, even if innocent of precise meaning. Bit like a double entendre which is only noticed by people who know too much!
Mike.
Lakesailor
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Yep. The Hosun Biggs is knackered on that one.
NormanS
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I seen it spelt.
Oh dear!
Oh dear!
