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spelt, spelt
spelt (SPELT) (noun)
An ancient and hardy kind of wheat, grown mostly in Europe: "In Germany, spelt is called dinkel and when they eat chicken [hinkel] and spelt [dinkel] together, they sometimes express their thoughts about how good the hinkel and dinkel meal tasted."
Etymology: The Latin name is Triticum spelta.
spelt (SPELT) (verb)
Primarily British, the past tense and past participle tense of spell which forms a word or a part of a word: "The man from England, who was visiting in New York, told the librarian that she spelt his name incorrectly."
"While visiting in London, the woman spelled the word favor in a note, but someone told her that in England they spelt it as favour."
The cook realized that he had spelt the word "spelt" wrong when he was writing down a recipe. He wrote "spelled" when he meant "spelt" while he was referring to the flour that is used to make speciality breads.
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Confusing Words Clarified: Group S; Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs, Synonyms, Polysemes, etc. +
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“spelt”
spell (verb), spells; spelled, spelt (British); spelling
1. To speak or to write the identification of the letters used correctly to create words: Clayton spelled his name for the teacher when he first went to her English class so she could add him to her attendance sheet.
2. To constitute the letters of a word: These letters spell "zebra".
2. To constitute the letters of a word: These letters spell "zebra".
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English Words in Action, Group S
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