Past Tense Of Treat?

[Sin_Chase]

English, srs bsns. +1 internet points for picking apart other peoples use of it, big man!

If it is understood, who the hell cares?

I was treated to <whatever>

You understand, I understand. Job done.

 

[semi-pro waster]

"The children should be treat equally." or "The children should be treated equally."?

It's the latter in that situation. You'd have to rearrange and rewrite if you wanted to use treat and change the tense e.g. "Ensure you treat the children equally".

 

[Masterdog]

Weirdly enough, the correct word is actually "trut". Click here for an explanation.

Don't agree with that tbh, and I've never heard of that website.

 

[mjt]

Don't agree with that tbh, and I've never heard of that website.

 

[Killerkebab]

Every past tense of "to treat" involves "treated" iirc.

 

[sigma]

Tarp? As in, 'it's a'?

 

[Reginald]

Traught

 

[jellybeard999]

It's the latter in that situation. You'd have to rearrange and rewrite if you wanted to use treat and change the tense e.g. "Ensure you treat the children equally".

I'm not using it as treet (phonetically spelt) though, but tret - ie a different word. Think of meet and met.

Why on earth would you use treat in that example?!

Pronounced tret, because that's how, locally at least, a lot of people would say it, so I do Just because it's from local dialect, doesn't mean it doesn't exist as a word. What was once correct may not be accepted now and vice versa, but words, phrases etc may be retained in a certain region despite being archaic.

ie
http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=951772
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Phrases-and-Sayings/Word-Origins/Question334279.html

Now if you look at

Treat

Etymology
From Anglo-Norman treter, Old French tretier, from Latin tractare (“to pull", "to manage”), from the past participle stem of trahere (“to draw", "to pull”).

tret [trɛt]
n

[from Old French trait pull, tilt of the scale; see trait]

Both originate from similar words so I just wondered if anyone else used the word and if it is at all correct. Treated is obviously the more popular and accepted word.

For what it's worth, I immediately changed the word to treated before looking it up, as it didn't look right.

On another note - spoilt or spoiled? spelt or spelled?

 

[semi-pro waster]

I'm not using it as treet (phonetically spelt) though, but tret - ie a different word. Think of meet and met.

As in "I've tret the kids to the pictures"? Ok, it's a different word but I'd have to say that it's not a word recognisable in the Queens', it can only be a colloquialism as far as I'm aware.

On another note - spoilt or spoiled? spelt or spelled?

In what context? "The child is spoilt", "the food is spoiled". "I spelt it out for him" or "how is that spelled?"?

 

[singist]

If you are English; treated is the answer.

 

[Vonhelmet]

Treated.

 

["andy"]

BROUGHT

 

[Biohazard]

trat

 

[Tefal]

"The children should be treat equally.

say that out loud it just sounds wrong.

 

[CliffyBiro]

I've never even heard anyone use "Tret" before.

 

["andy"]

i have. usually geordies. ''met this cannae lass out down the toon and tret her to some chips like''

 

[Bar]

Tret does seem to be a northern word - wifes a geordie and she says it quite often.

 

[Randomface74]

I will treat you to a something.
I have treat you to a something. (pronounced "tret")

 

[dazzerd]

treated is both the past simple form of the verb and the past participle.

But if I were you, I'd keep my grammatical opinions to myself.

I didn't realise a typo was classed as a grammatical error.....

 

[Skidder]

northerners do make me chuckle. Keep up the good work you pigeon bothering jokers.