Past tense of spit

[SAment56]

Hi everyone,

I was just wondering about the correct past tense of the word spit. Since I have been in Korea I have heard Americans and Canadians using spit for past and present tense. I am South African and I have always thought that the past tense of spit is spat.  Is it possible that we didn't get the memo down South?

[Leez]

I checked Oxford Dictionary:

The standard for British English (which is what we speak in SA) as spat as the past tense of spit.

North American English (spoken in the US and Canda) has spit as both both present and past.

[Yu_Bumsuk]

I checked Oxford Dictionary:

The standard for British English (which is what we speak in SA) as spat as the past tense of spit.

North American English (spoken in the US and Canda) has spit as both both present and past.

Any Canadian guide would say spat, I'm fairly sure, though most poorly educated Canadians would say spit.