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I WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT THIS EARLIER.
Specifically, (as a native English speaker) my gut is to do the same thing (participle vs. past-simple) with irregular verbs such as this (others being dealt, learnt, spelt, etc.).
I couldn't sworn I read something about that usage when I was a teenager but everything I look up regarding them, now, chalks them up to being just an EN-US and EN-GB difference but, otherwise, entirely equivalent.
I have a strange idiolect. "Dealt" seems correct, but "learnt" and "spelt" do not. Neither would lead me to raise an eyebrow; I'd assume I'm interacting with a user of British English.
To be fair (according to everything I've been able to find), you ought to be as, apparently, they're more favored, over there. I dunno; I do suspect I picked it up from reading and The Wind in the Willows and The Once and Future King were favorites of mine, in childhood, so maybe that's it.