Tell me more ×  Which is the past participle of spit: spat or
spit? And how many examples can we come up with where a verb is
changed in the simple past but unchanged(spelt like in the
present) in the past participle?  share|improve this question It
just depends on your particular dialect. Everyone agrees that
past tense is the same as the present for words like cut, hit,
put. In some dialects this also applies to spit, shit and
probably others I can't call to mind offhand. –  FumbleFingers
Sep 8 '11 at 21:18 ...just thought of quit, where I think
quitted is extremely rare. The opposite to most others. – 
FumbleFingers Sep 8 '11 at 21:22 Wikipedia already has a pretty
complete list of English irregular verbs. –  krubo Sep 9 '11 at
0:48 add comment  closed as general reference by KitFox, Jasper,
aedia λ, Daniel, simchona Sep 9 '11 at 18:28   3 Answers  In
standard English, you generally have:    • come, plus its
compounds (including become)   • run, plus its compounds   • bid
(bid / bade / bid), but generally