Equipt or Equipped

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Both‼️ Merriam Webster will tell you that equipt is the past participle of equip. So is equipped.

I suspect it’s much like learnt and spent vs learned and , uh, spent again. In the U.K. learnt is used instead of learned. Learnt is used in every country except the USA and parts of Canada. They use learned. Many people born before the seventies in certain parts of the USA say they remember writing learnt and equipt and it seemed to have faded away. Much like most countries say Zed and not Zee for the last letter of the romanised alphabet. Why does the USA say zee then? Because in 1835 the alphabet song came out and in the song they changed it to see to rhyme with “tell me what you think of me”. Prior to that it was Zed, but the song caught on and replaced Zed with Zee.

I would NEVER use equipt. And, in fact, my spell check doesn’t recognise it.

There are many similar examples:
Leaped/leapt, dreamed/dreamt, learned/learnt, etc.
I've never seen equipt before though, and it differs from the examples above as presumably it would be pronounced exactly as equipped, whereas the other pairs are all pronounced differently.

Equipt looks Jane Austeny to me.

Or rather, it looks like fanfic in imitation of Jane Austen, because I think she spelled it "equipped". In fact I know she does: “Part of my lace is gone,” said she, “and I do not know how I am to contrive. I really am a most troublesome companion to you both, but I hope I am not often so ill-equipped. Mr. Elton, I must beg leave to stop at your house, and ask your housekeeper for a bit of ribband or string, or any thing just to keep my boot on.” (Emma, Chapter 10 near the end.)

OED and Chambers only recognise equipped. Maybe equipt is found in the US?

I would use equipped. Never seen equipt

I'm Irish. I use learned, equipped, dreamed and leaped.

I also say Zee.

There's a difference between past and past participles (that are used in 'perfect' tenses).

I'm shamelessly following this

Maybe equipt is found in the US?
No, only equipped.

I've spent a career correcting 'equiptment' in written work. Perhaps generations of children have been secretly devouring Merriam Webster.