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by owlglass 1201 days ago
Even if English is the lingua franca of the world, people master it to varying degrees. Also, it seems like 'quitted' was the more common form up until the ~late 1930s [1], so it's not entirely unreasonable to assume that, if this person learned with some vintage material or they read classics, they've seen 'quitted' more often.

[1] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=had+quitted%2C...