What AmE dialect has "et" as the past tense of "eat"?
From Dictionary.com:
et
Chiefly North Atlantic, South Midland and Southern US Nonstandard
A simple past tense of "eat".
A Newfoundlander I once met
recounted that he had just et.
I said "...have eaten"
and was roundly beaten
for he was greatly upset!
It's common in British English. I remember being corrected in junior school (age 8) to say ATE instead of ET, and thinking it was an overcorrection, like saying Wed-nes-day.
I'm from Florida (pronounced Flah-rih-dah) and we always say 'et'. As in: "you're too late; we done et", or "we et before we came over".