![]() ![]() Unfortunately many have not been retained by my memory, with my mind possibly deciding they do not sound correct now.Īt least I have been through the mind opening process before, when young. Then it takes some time to recall that I hunted down the various usages as a teen and discussed them with others. I actually find this happens more and more as I age, a surety over the use of language forms until I hunt further. In my case it was a case of a bad memory and the mind then choosing one or two forms instead, because it has been a long time since hearing the third form, spit. We agreed that spit in the past tense didn’t ring well. Your conception of the use of spit in the past was spat, whilst mine was either spat or spitted. It took me a while and a couple of web pages to remember that the same form as the present tense, spit, can also be used for the past with this verb. I imagined there was just a lapse with the writer forming the phrasal verb from the basic verb. My only thought was that if the past tense of spit is spitted or spat then any phrasal verb would follow the same form. For some reason, not long awakened this morning, it sounded off. I found this page because I was watching a documentary on Modigliani, who “spit up blood”, the narrator said. Past tense of spit – three possibilities: spit, spat and spitted, all of those. Of course that’s a very subjective approach – but sometimes it’s the only choice we have.Įnglish is always changing, and words are always sliding in and out of our language. My policy is to stick with whatever sounds right to me. ![]() It didn’t even mention spitted or spit for the past tense. The other two said that both spit or spat could be used in the past tense.Ī grammar website agreed with me that spat is the correct choice for the past tense. Really? I’ve never heard anyone say “spitted.” One gave the preferred past tense and past participle as… spitted. “using a sample of saliva that is spat into a vial….” “Other methods, using a sample of saliva that is spit into a vial, are being introduced in a small number of states but are not widely available yet.” In a paragraph about COV-19 tests performed at the convent, I found this sentence: Last week’s Times included a sad story about five retired nuns who died of COV-19. “ Spat on, Yelled at, Attacked: Chinese in U.S. ![]() Fear for Safety.” Here’s how I would have written it: The morning my mouth is full of .Twice recently the New York Times has made mistakes with the word “spit.” Or maybe they haven’t made mistakes with “spit.”Ī few weeks ago I wrote a post about this headline from the March 23 Times: “Spit on, Yelled at, Attacked: Chinese in U.S. All day, every day i have phlegm in my mouth and i have spit it out EVERY time before i eat something, its hard and it hurts.I have been spitting you have been spitting he has . I have spit you have spit he has spit we have spit you have spit they have spit.What is this stuff anyway? That's not Spit . Who spit on my plants?…will be the question running through your mind. You'll think “Yuk, I have spit on my plants”.I have spitted spat spit you have spitted spat spit I spit you spit he spits we spit you spit they spit. I have spitted spat spit you have spitted spat spit he has spitted spat spit we have spitted spat spit you have spitted spat spit they have spitted spat spit .I looked at that sign and then looked down at the ground and saw many had spitted there, and before I think what I am doing I have spitted myself.Some examples and use cases from the internet: ![]()
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