Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Smelt vs smelled Ask Question. Asked 3 years, 10 months ago. Active 10 months ago. Viewed times. Improve this question. Smelt is obscure in AmE - except in the child's admonition: "He who smelt it, dealt it.
Oldbag could you elaborate? What does AmE mean? Thank you! Curious history: ngram of "smelt the metal" vs "smelt the odor" — Davo. AmE - American English. If you speak a North American dialect of English, wait just a second before you change every instance of smelt to smelled. Smelt has other uses, even in your variety of English. To smelt a rock means to melt the rock in order to get some kind of metal out of it. The past tense of the verb to smelt is smelted.
A smelt is also a type of fish. These two meanings of smelt are the same in all dialects of English. A red sage smelled distinctly like pineapple.
The word smelt does have a few other meanings, both as a noun and verb, that add to the confusion of smelled or smelt. Smelt as a noun. As a noun , a smelt is a type of fish. A smelt is any of the various small silvery marine, freshwater, and anadromous food dishes of the family Osmeridae, usually found in the Northern Hemisphere. Smelt as a verb.
Used of ores. Teachers: We supply a list of EFL job vacancies. Smelt is an alternative to smelled and is preferable, though not obligatory, in British English. At the end of the day, the sound difference is only between [t] and [d]. Smelled is correct and the "preferred" use of the past tense of smell, but in his excellent dissertation on God versus science, Albert Einstein twice used the word "smelt" as the past tense of smell.
Microsoft word check did not identify it as either a spelling or a grammatical error. Having been raised in Kentucky, we used the word smelt frequently. Living in the southwest, I used we had been mispronouncing the word spelled, but maybe the word smelt is more commonly used in the south.
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