What is the difference between 'learnt' and 'learned'?

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What is the difference between ‘learnt’ and ‘learned’?

Posted on December 28, 2009

Apparently, not much. 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. It's an irregular verb, and this is a part of its irregularity.

British people - 'Learnt' please.

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Smelly Brain
January 9th, 2010 - 18:45

I did not even knew Learnt was a real word. Are you serious that it is an existing word in the UK? It looks like wrong grammar mixed english and dutch

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