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| Antelope Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5654 days ago 49 posts - 49 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Spanish, Greek | Message 33 of 34 10 July 2009 at 12:33am | IP Logged |
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"Learnt" is how I say it.
I just typed "Learnt" into my babylon dictionary and apparently it's perfectly fine. "learn ■ verb (past and past participle 'learned' or chiefly Brit. 'learnt') Concise Oxford English Dictionary 2004" 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| fanatic Octoglot Senior Member Australia speedmathematics.com Joined 7154 days ago 1152 posts - 1818 votes  Speaks: English*, German, French, Afrikaans, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Dutch Studies: Swedish, Norwegian, Polish, Modern Hebrew, Malay, Mandarin, Esperanto | Message 34 of 34 10 July 2009 at 9:07am | IP Logged |
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I live in Australia and I usually write the word as learnt.
When we talk about behaviour we say that it is learned rather than inherent. So we would talk about learned behaviour but the person has learnt to do it. I hadn't considered this difference before. So far as burnt/burned is concerned we would usually say the candle burned brightly (not burnt) but the toast was burnt. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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