![]() Tetsujin writes that "Northern Br Eng still uses 'treat' as the past tense, even though Southern Br Eng would use 'treated' ", but the OED entry for treat seems to indicate that the spelling "tret" has been used for this verb form ("15–16 Sc. Tetsujin's answer to the ELL question " Can I say 'I sleeped all night' instead of slept?" mentions the word treat apparently, this has a past-tense form /trɛt/ for some speakers, although its usual spelling is unclear to me. I know, super confusing, but I’ll break it down for you as best I can. ![]() Believing the past tense of read is red is incorrect. The existence of accents that use the pronunciation /bɛt/ for the past tense of beat does not seem to be widely known among speakers who use the pronunciation /biːt/ for both past and present tense. Read is an irregular verb whose present and past tenses are written the same. talk talked We talked on the phone for hours last night. play play ed Chris played soccer with his friends before school. watch watch ed I watched a movie yesterday. Here are some examples of common past tense verbs that end in ed. ![]() The verb read has an irregular past tense. The present tense of read has a long E sound and rhymes with reed. The past tense of read is read, spelled the same but pronounced differently it is pronounced as red. Because of the strong influence of American English, learned is increasing in popularity. In other varieties of English, learnt is dominant. The verb read is pronounced differently depending on the tense: more like reed in the present and more like red in the past. In American English, learned is the prevalent past tense form of learn. The standard spelling for both the present and the past tense is "beat"-as far as I know, this doesn't change for people who use the pronunciation /bɛt/ for the past tense. With most regular verbs, to make the past tense we simply add -ed to the end of the verb. Here’s a quick recap: Read and read are pronounced differently, but spelled the same. The word read has the past tense read, although the pronunciation of the two words is different. Some people apparently pronounce the past tense of the word beat as /bɛt/ ("bet") see the following question: How common is pronouncing the past tense of beat as /bet/?
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