Writen or written?
Maybe it is a silly question, but every single time I have to write this participle, I doubt about it beause I would say that I´ve read both ways: writen and written, but, if it´s the case, why should I write one instead the other?

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Hi Pedro

If you take a look at the last time I made some corrections to your writing, you'll see that I changed 'writen' to 'written', but I didn't mention it. I pointed out a couple of vocabulary and grammar errors, but I hoped that you'd notice my correction to 'written' and just kind of absorb the correct spelling.

It's actually not hard to work out why the past participle has two 't's : just think about the pronunciation.  Remember that 'write',  'wrote' and 'writing' have a single 't' because these are long vowels, whereas 'written' has a short vowel, so it has a double consonant. Just think about 'kite' and 'kitten', for example - one 't' for the long /ai/ vowel in 'kite', and two 't's for the short /i/ vowel in 'kitten'.

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written

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To be honest, I've never seen "writen". You always use "written" (double t) :)

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To my knowledge, it's always "written".

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Remember that 'write', 'wrote' and 'writing' have a single 't' because these are long vowels, whereas 'written' has a short vowel, so it has a double consonant.
Just think about 'kite' and 'kitten', for example - one 't' for the long /ai/ vowel in 'kite', and two 't's for the short /i/ vowel in 'kitten'

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