Sorry, Frank!

Speak Up March 2014… “The best of the blog”… MY WAY … “I ate it up and spit it out”. This sentence is absolutely correct. In American English spit is the past of spit. “The Voice” is right. Giuseppe

Correct. On this occasion we also stated (jokingly) that Frank Sinatra wasn’t famous for his good grammar. In retrospect we were technically wrong, at least in this case, and we apologise. In actual fact we’re relieved that Sinatra died in 1998. According to Kitty Kelley’s biography, His Way, he reacted violently to any form of criticism and he had powerful friends in the Chicago mob, so he would probably have had us killed!