Forecast, broadcast

[ROBINDESBOIS]

the past tense of these verbs is forcast (UK) Forcasted ( USA)
What about broadcast. I know it´s Broadcast in The Uk, can we say broadcasted in the USA?

[hermit]

In the U.S. you'll hear "broadcast" as a past tense form, but more often
than not, "broadcasted".

Same goes for "forecast, forcasted".

[wafflestomp]

Yup, you can say broadcasted in the US. It sounds weird to me to say "They broadcast yesterday the news about the oil spill". It should be, at least in the US, "They broadcasted yesterday the news about the oil spill". To someone in the UK it'd probably be totally flip-flopped thought.

[Rusty]

To me it doesn't sound at all strange to use 'broadcast' as the past tense form. That is the way I've always said it.
I grew up in the West, so perhaps it's just a regional difference. According to American English dictionaries, both forms are acceptable.

By the way, both of the sentences you posted sound strange to me. I would say the adverb elsewhere - either before the subject or after the direct object. Is this another regional difference?

[wafflestomp]

Originally Posted by Rusty

To me it doesn't sound at all strange to use 'broadcast' as the past tense form. That is the way I've always said it.
I grew up in the West, so perhaps it's just a regional difference. According to American English dictionaries, both forms are acceptable.

By the way, both of the sentences you posted sound strange to me. I would say the adverb elsewhere - either before the subject or after the direct object. Is this another regional difference?

Not really, it probably does sound better to reword it to "Yesterday they broadcasted news about the oil spil" but it's still correct nonetheless. Here in NY on all the news channels they say broadcasted and forecasted, but the way I worded the sentence does sound better the way you suggested.