The true way to spell…?
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Second, “spelt” is perfectly fine.
Third, any time you have to wonder and have no authoritative resource at hand (like a dictionary), try considering how the letters would be pronounced each way and how each spelling would sound after some running together of the paired vowels. (This, by the way, is how dipthongs come to exist.) For instance, “weird” would sound something like “wee-eared” and slurred a wee bit would sound a lot like how “weird” is pronounced. Spelling it the friend’s way would go something like “why-erd” or a lot like we pronounce “wired.” Out of those two, I think you’d see the first realllllly suggests itself as the proper way to spell “weird.”
Of course, that doesn’t always work, but it does give a clear answer most of the time. Definitely this time. Your friend went out on a limb and if you take a dictionary to work and convince her she’s dead wrong, she’ll be like a cartoon character who now looks down and realizes there was never a limb and nothing is holding her up…
Let’s face it, the childhood rhyme is dumb. There are just too many exceptions. It does not work.
The word I think you misused is ‘spelt’ …. it’s ‘spelled’.
weird.
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