![]() ![]() But both the literary world and English speakers generally were moving decidedly away from dreamt, with dreamed becoming the clearly dominant form in the first half of the 19th century. Chesterton, Herman Melville, Walter Scott, Joseph Conrad, Jack London, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, H.G. While Jane Austen and William Makepeace Thackeray were dedicated dreamt users, and Edith Wharton and Virginia Woolf consistently favored dreamed, other 19th and early 20th century writers-among them Charlotte Brontë, Mark Twain, G.K. ![]() By the 19th century, evidence suggests that most major writers (or perhaps their editors and/or publishers) were somewhat conflicted. A century and change later, Jonathan Swift vacillated between dreamed and dreamt in Journal to Stella, a series of letters written between 17 and published posthumously in 1766, but chose dreamed for the one past-tense occurrence of dream in the 1726 Gulliver's Travels. Shakespeare typically opted for dreamt in his works, but occasionally employed dreamed as well. "I dreamt a dream tonight," says Romeo to Mercutio in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, written in the late 16th century. What was it your coworker did last night? They dreamed about that cold fish-filled field? Or is it more correct to say they dreamt about it?īoth dreamed and dreamt have been past tense forms of dream since the 14th century. You know, maybe we'll just take a quick nap first. ![]()
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