Just been told it's blood spatter not splatter

[hahahayoumustbejoking]

Apparently told to someone else by surgeon.

AIBU to feel very thick

Never even heard the word spatter before and I've watched Midsommer Murders loads

Definitely spatter - from CSI 🤣

In what context??!

grammarist.com/usage/spatter-splatter/

Have you not watched Dexter OP

I've not watched Dexter. Thought my training on LOD and Inspector Morse would see me good but apparently not!

Dexter is very good I think you would enjoy it if you like avenging angel/retribution scenarios with good characters and lovely scenery plus tension
Apart from the last series
I think I need to watch it again

Learnt this on Dexter.

Is it? Surely you can also have a splatter?

"The spatter of blood was splattered across the floor." She splattered.

Never knew this!

You can have paint spattered clothes.

I think splat is more vertical from a height, so splattered.
But you need some centrifugal force for a spatter.

Splatter is the action, spatter is the object (e.g. the pattern left on the surface)

I remember listening to a BBC radio programme about a scene or crime investigator describing how she uses various implements to whack things (not sure what) filled with blood to show blood spatter patterns to work out what people were bludgeoned with and how/where. It was quite interesting.

I've watched every series of Dexter and I thought it was splatter until this thread. That was before I watched everything with subtitles on though!

I’ve watched many, many hours of Forensic Files so I knew it was spatter

I worry about the mind of the writers of Dexter.. And of the mners who watch it!!

Spatter or splatter, most people would know what you mean. And not bother to correct it. Very minor.

Ugh

I did not know this.

I agree with @HasaDigaEebowai and the link, I think the words mean two different things.

things you learn on mumsnet! (wanders away to write this as a note & to tell husband & sound superior!)

I think spatter is smaller bits and splatter is larger bits in simple terms. 🤔

To splatter a spatter

Splatter movies, not spatter movies?

There’s a lot about this on The Staircase on Netflix. I think about this programme often.