Re: THEORY: Storage Vs. Computation
| From: | Raymond A. Brown <raybrown@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, June 18, 1999, 5:48 |
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At 11:51 pm -0500 17/6/99, Nik Taylor wrote:
>Steg Belsky wrote:
>> I use [learnt] and "learned" nearly interchangeably,
>> except in certain situations where one 'sounds better', such as poetry.
>
>I've always associated "learnt" with rural, "redneck" dialects, for some
>reason.
Hey!! It's standard in England (where English started :)
To us, "learn'd" sounds distinctly rural & archaic and in stereotype rustic
speech usually means 'taught' - "Oi learn'd 'im, roight & proper, I did".
Ray.