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owshawng
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02 December 2007 at 9:22pm | IP Logged

fanatic wrote:

I would say learnt, burnt, dreamt, leapt, spelt, spilt (as in spilt milk).
For spoil I would say spoiled if I were talking about a child who has been spoiled, but I would say the food has spoilt or the concert was spoilt by the unruly audience.

I use burnt with an auxiliary verb too. I say "I burned the toast" but "The toast is burnt". That's one of the few occasions I use a t instead of an ed ending.

I speak American English.
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sarguy
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03 December 2007 at 4:14pm | IP Logged

I was raised in America with lots of British television and literary influence in my early years, so I find myself mixing the two styles

For example, toast is always "burnt," but wood is always "burned".
I use lept instead of leaped
dreamt instead of dreamed, etc.

I find myself mixing based on context and what I've been conditioned to do. Both my parents do the same thing.
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03 December 2007 at 5:45pm | IP Logged

owshawng wrote:

I use burnt with an auxiliary verb too. I say "I burned the toast" but "The toast is burnt". That's one of the few occasions I use a t instead of an ed ending.

Same.

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owshawng
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03 December 2007 at 9:08pm | IP Logged

I was raised in the US, watched lots of British dramas and Benny Hill and read British writers growing up, then lived in Australia for 3.5 years. I reckon my use of t and ed ending is a bit skewed because of this. Not to mention my spelling.
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risby
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04 December 2007 at 6:28am | IP Logged

Polar wrote:

Am curious. Would these endings vary between the English spoken in Scotland, Ireland, and Australia, as well? Just curious.

I have more than once spoken with people from these nations, but while enjoying the accent and vocabulary differences ("boot" instead of "trunk" "torch" instead of "flashlight") I have never dwelt (dwelled? LOL) upon these differences.

This wikipedia entry is quite a learned article which says the regular form is more common (in both senses of the word, i.e. frequent and "not posh").

Edited by risby on 04 December 2007 at 6:29am
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Monox D. I-Fly
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02 October 2016 at 4:59pm | IP Logged

owshawng wrote:

I use burnt with an auxiliary verb too. I say "I burned the toast" but "The toast is burnt". That's one of the few occasions I use a t instead of an ed ending.

Isn't it just the difference between verb 2 and verb 3 in this case?
Verb 1: Burn
Verb 2: Burned
Verb 3: Burnt

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