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On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Sandy Harris <sandyinchina -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> I'm Canadian, and at
> one point was working for a British organisation. I was amazed when
> a colleague said "Fred called. He suggested that you rang him back."
>
> To me, that is no more grammatical than "I seen George yesterday."
> It /must/ have "ring"! However, she was educated, working as an
> Englsh teacher. I asked various Brit colleagues; quite a few found
> "rang" acceptable there.
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