Ozarks at Large Stories Wrong-Sounding Words That Aren't Wrong KUAF | By Kyle Kellams Published June 18, 2020 at 1:49 PM CDT Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 10:39 Our Militant Grammarian Katherine Shurlds says if you spit in the past, it's spat, not spitted, but as tends to be the case with the English language, there's always an exception.