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 #2 (permalink) Wed Oct 31, 2007 13:05 pm Past tense of "to learn" |
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| Both 'learned' and 'learnt' are correct. |
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| #3 (permalink) Wed Oct 31, 2007 13:17 pm Past tense of "to learn" |
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| Thanks for the quick reply! |
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| #4 (permalink) Wed Oct 31, 2007 14:07 pm Past tense of "to learn" |
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I will say, I very rarely see "learnt" in written form (or spoken form, for that matter).
...must be a British thing.
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| #5 (permalink) Wed Oct 31, 2007 14:41 pm Past tense of "to learn" |
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| prezbucky wrote: |
I will say, I very rarely see "learnt" in written form (or spoken form, for that matter).
...must be a British thing. |
"Learnt" is not standard American English, but it's normal in some American dialects that retain what would be thought of here as archaic British forms (as opposed to the standard American forms that are archaic in Britain). If you listen to people who speak Ebonics, you'll hear all those forms like "learnt", "spilt", "spelt", etc., and teachers in inner city schools try hard to get kids to stop using them. When I revealed in a lesson once that those forms are standard in the UK, two Ebonics-speaking students were very surprised and remarked, "If we woulda said that in school, da teacher gonna say we STUPID!" |
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| Is this correct: Skills to be taught? | another way of saying "finish working" |
