Learnt and Learned

What is the difference between Learnt and Learned?


These are alternative forms of the past tense and past participle of the verb LEARN. Learnt is more common in British English and learned in American English. There are a number of verbs of this type (burn, dream, kneel, lean, leap, spell, spill, spoil etc.). They are all irregular verbs and this is a part of their irregularity.


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