Fit or fitted

[Ihad2Strokes]

Hi, hope you can help me out here

I said the problem with certain types of tap fittings could be to do with how they were fit.

The mansplaining poster came back with, 'I think you mean fitted'

Are both acceptable to use or is my use of fit incorrect in 'it could be the way the taps were fit'?

Please excuse any mistakes because of the strokes I'm using voice to message and no matter how much I check the post it seems to change them when I press send 🙇🏻‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️

Fitted is correct.

Yes, fitted is correct.

The taps were fit by the plumber.

The taps were fitted by the plumber

Yes, the second is correct. I think you’re perhaps getting a little muddled in that some verbs have a shorter form for the past tense, so wear and wore, for example.

But fitted is right. As is texted and packed (referencing another thread where this is under discussion!).

Fitted is correct - see also bit and bitten.

see when I read it like that, I would say fitted,..

But in my original post I was saying that maybe the dripping was because of the way the taps had been fit.

even if what I wrote was incorrect, I don't think he needed to be so rude.

Fit is still wrong
They didn't fit because they had been fitted incorrectly

Oh, I agree with that, not for the plumber to correct your grammar. But he was right! Still fitted.

Actually, I think it’s the way it’s being used. In some ways fit would be right, as in “my dress fit me this time last year”. I think (don’t quote me) that in this example it’s being using transitively but in your example it’s used intransitively.

English is unnecessarily complicated sometimes!

It wasn’t the plumber.

You’re right, it wasn’t. Thanks for pointing that out.

It's not about transitive and intransitive. Your example is using a preterite/simple past tense and the OP's is using a past participle (as part of a passive verb). But both the simple past and the past participle are 'fitted'.

Sorry if that sounded pedantic.
I go carried away with being in pedant’s corner 😆
Seriously, I didn’t mean any snark.

Interesting. Google tells me that fit is an irregular very and the past tense is fit? But now I read further that’s in the US.

This is a very fascinating thread! I used to know all these ins and outs. Nowadays I can usually tell if something is right or wrong but not necessarily why!

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thanks all, off to bed for some much needed sleep (I hope anyway).

I think there are two types of fitting.

The sweater / swimsuit fit me. (Kidding, the swimsuit definitely didn't fit me).
The worker fitted the taps / windows.

(Then there's 'fit to burst/ cry', etc, and 'a feast fit for a king'...)

The sweater fits me this year.
The sweater fitted me last year.

I wouldn't tell you that the sweater fit me last year. I would consider that to be incorrect.

In British English, ‘fitted’ is standard.
US English seems to prefer ‘fit’.