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27I was confused before this whether which is right, learnt or learned? I have an American dictionary installed on my Firefox2.0 - and it always says that I’m wrong when I use the word learnt. I used Google’s define function too to verify it, but it says “No definitions were found for learnt”. I got fed up because the word learnt is widely used in Malaysia and it’s impossible it’s wrong.
After doing some research on AskOxford, I understand that both learnt and learned are correct. Learnt is in British English, while learned is in American English. I personally prefer British English, it looks more brilliant to me. Wondering why there are two types of English language, we in Malaysia are using British English.
Some of other examples that have similar confusion like learnt are burn, dream, kneel, lean, leap, spell, spill, and spoil. There are some other interesting articles at AskOxford like confusion about “email and e-mail” and related stuff. Good site to gain some general knowledge in English language.
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In your learnt or learned page, you wrote in the second paragraph:
Wondering why they are two types of English language, we in Malaysia are using British English. You were supposed to write: “Why THERE are two types” and not “why they are 2 types”
Thank you, I find this site fun and stimulating… English is my 4th language, but it is now my best spoken languae, well, most of the time.
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Vincent said on June 10th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
Thanks for the correction, it has been corrected. Thanks for visiting too.
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