Re: THEORY: Storage Vs. Computation
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, June 18, 1999, 4:51 |
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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.
Speaking of "learned", when did the distinction between one-syllable
"learned" (/lr=nd/) as the past-tense of "learn" and two-syllable
"learned" (/lr=nId/) as the participle (the learned scholar) develop?
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