Past Participle Of Forecast

[bednobs]

Hi in my job I have to do monthly forecasting.
Is it correct to say "have you forecast that item" or "have you forcasted that item"
It's the whole team/teamsed debate over again!

[ichkeria]

Forecast

[JimF]

Forecast is correct, just as the die is cast, not casted.

[ichkeria]

or Forecasted :-)

[Jackdaw33]

Forecast is correct. The present and past tenses are the same.

[iluvmargie]

'forecast' for me!

[ichkeria]

Either is correct.
Personally I’d use “forecast” but the other isn’t wrong

[LadyCG]

If you were the two Ronnies, it would be Fork ar5ed.

[Jackdaw33]

There are many verbs in English where the present and past tenses are identical. 'Hit' immediately springs to mind.

[JimF]

Cf

The programme has not yet been broadcast, not broadcasted.
The actor is typecast, not typecasted.

Etc.

[JimF]

"where the present and past tenses are identical"

Usually monosyllabics (set, put etc) and other verbs composed from them.

[Ellipsis]

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=forecasted

[THECORBYLOON]

Chambers Dictionary and the OED say both forms are correct.

[Peter Pedant]

// Forecast is correct. The present and past tenses are the same.//

jackie - who REALLY should know better, is correct but it is the participles we are referring to and for some reason he doesnt give an opinion on that

It was forecast - yup participle is forecast

not sure why - - because it sounds like one?

[ichkeria]

“Typecasted” is wrong
“Broadcasted” is correct
This is why we love English :-)

[Peter Pedant]

present and past identical

oh god I wish the intellectuals and pointy heads of AB would think before placing foot in mouth

he hits the boy]
and he hit the boy

er arent identical when I last looked ..... ho hum normal day for biilshoot on AB

[Jackdaw33]

In such verbs as these the preterite and the participle are identical.

[Ellipsis]

I predicted the thread would go this way ...

[JimF]

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/is-it-broadcast-or-broadcasted-forecast-or-forecasted-usage

[Peter Pedant]

blimey and the cast in typecast and broadcast are the same root

[Jackdaw33]

That is a present tense conjugation. You should know better; I hit (present), I hit (past).