In Appalachian and Southern speech, "smelt" is the past tense of "smell." While standard English uses "smelled," the older form "smelt" stuck in regional dialects.
You smell it now, but before? You 'smelt' it. It's how most of the country folk say it.
Pronunciation
[SMELT]
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You smell it now, but before? You 'smelt' it. It's how most of the country folk say it.