Re: THEORY: Storage Vs. Computation

Raymond A. Brown wrote:

> Hey!! It's standard in England (where English started  :)
Methought it started in Ingvaeonia. :-)

> To us, "learn'd" sounds distinctly rural & archaic and in stereotype rustic
> speech usually means 'taught' - "Oi learn'd 'im, roight & proper, I did".
Whereas when I say "learnt" and "burnt", which I grew up with
(Ghu knows why), my wife tells me I sound British and affected,
although phonologically I am as American as anyone can be
("British? If I were any more British, I couldn't talk at all!").

--
John Cowan      http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@ccil.org
        You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
        You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
                Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)