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Wrong-Sounding Words That Aren't Wrong

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. 

Kyle Kellams is KUAF's news director and host of Ozarks at Large.
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