•March 15, 2023•
By Jim Baumann
NP Guest Writer

My wife spends her slumbers dreaming up ways to solve complex problems.
I merely dream up situations from which I cannot extricate myself and ridiculous scenarios involving work.
We both wake up exhausted, but at least her dreams are productive. Her sleep-borne solutions actually work in waking life.
She woke the other day and ask me whether she “dreamed” something or “dreamt” it.
She also wanted to know whether it was better to say someone “leaped” or “leapt.”
Those who watch a lot of BBC mysteries on Acorn likely prefer “dreamt” and “leapt,” because they are chiefly British irregular verb forms.     Login or Subscribe to read the rest of this story.