questioning my eng. teacher

lucifersam
Tue, 04 Jan 2005 12:17:38 +0000

I don’t have another “dictionaryish” source with me at the moment, but if dictionary.com has any credibility, “smelt” IS a word, and seems to be completely interchangeable with smelled. And I myself am pretty sure that “had smelled” works just as well as “had smelt”.

I’m not sure what sort of school you’re going to, but I know that all the English teachers I ever had in Kentucky were horrible at English, and I’m inclined to think that many public schools are the same way. Mine couldn’t spell simple words and would use words like “conversate”. I may not be out of Kentucky just yet, but at least I’m away from that horrible public school system. Maybe it was just my county’s in particular. Whatever.