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Old 09-23-2010, 03:46 AM   #2 (permalink)
Baraka_Guru
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It's cast.

According to the OED, casted was an earlier form of cast. It certainly isn't used today. I've never seen it.

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1599 Shakespeare. Henry V, iv. i. 23: With casted slough, and fresh legeritie.
It's one of those words whose present tense matches the past tense.
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