"Stank" or "Stunk"

[Lord Pikey]

Please settle a coffee break argument.

When describing some farmers fields that smelt particularly bad last week my colleague described them as stank. Another colleague said the word was stunk.

I think both are acceptable, but im not sure....so please please pistonhead spelling and grammar police who is correct?

Lord Pikey

[AMCDan]

Lord Pikey said:

Please settle a coffee break argument.

When describing some farmers fields that smelt particularly bad last week my colleague described them as stank. Another colleague said the word was stunk.

I think both are acceptable, but im not sure....so please please pistonhead spelling and grammar police who is correct?

Lord Pikey

smelled HTH

---edit: you learn something new every day, smelt can be a simple past participle of smell. is that a merkunism?

Edited by AMCDan on Wednesday 29th October 08:36

[Hedders]

Stunk, imo.

Actually, "they are Stank" "They Stunk"..

hhmm, not so sure now..

Edited by Hedders on Wednesday 29th October 08:34

[mercemployee]

stank: if it is recently after the incident and you are discussing it with someone else who also experienced the smell. I.e. "that stank!"

stunk: if, after the event, you are discussing it or describing with another person who wasn't there. i.e. "mate you should have been there, it stunk!"

Might be the other way round though

Edited by mercemployee on Wednesday 29th October 08:37

[crofty1984]

All your stank are belong to us

[hugoagogo]

stted or shat?

[HRG]

AMCDan said:

Lord Pikey said:

Please settle a coffee break argument.

When describing some farmers fields that smelt particularly bad last week my colleague described them as stank. Another colleague said the word was stunk.

I think both are acceptable, but im not sure....so please please pistonhead spelling and grammar police who is correct?

Lord Pikey

smelled HTH

---edit: you learn something new every day, smelt can be a simple past participle of smell. is that a merkunism?

Edited by AMCDan on Wednesday 29th October 08:36

But a smell isn't necessarily bad, virtually everything smells ergo smell is the wrong adjective

[Plotloss]

In the past tense they are freely interchangable, the past participle however is always stunk.

[8Ace]

Good thread. How about Ming. It mings. It was minging. It mang? mung?

[Don]

UK British English: The buggers stank like effluent from a grim northern town's sewers.

US English: The team stunk after their hot, sweaty game.

I am fairly sure it's an Americanism.

[Don]

crofty1984 said:

All your stank are belong to us

[Don]

Plotloss said:

In the past tense they are freely interchangable, the past participle however is always stunk.

Izzat so...!? Learn something new everyday...

[GKP]

Smell doesn't come in to this argument. Smell is something that your nose does, not a fragrance given off by a field.

'No Madam, you smell. I stink.'

[NiceCupOfTea]

Don said:

crofty1984 said:

All your stank are belong to us

[minimoog]

8Ace said:

Good thread. How about Ming. It mings. It was minging. It mang? mung?

Minged. Hard 'g'.

As in "her minge minged".