Saturday 1 May 2021

Burned vs. Burnt, and other verbs like this

Only American English makes a distinction between the two. In other varieties of English, burnt and burned are both perfectly acceptable for the past tense of burn. It wasn’t always that way. Before the sixteenth century, burned was the only form. However, some people started adding T instead of -ed at the ends of verbs. The fad caught on a little in the United States and Canada, but not enough to become an established part of the language there. In the United Kingdom and other countries, the T was a hit. Here are some examples of burnt functioning as the simple past tense and past participle of burn...

(From Grammarly)

Others verbs following a similar pattern



Clap

Clapped
Clapt
Clapped
Clapt
31

Dream

Dreamt
Dreamed
Dreamt
Dreamed


Kneel

Knelt
Kneeled
Knelt
Kneeled


Lean

Leant
Leaned
Leant
Leaned


Leap

Leapt
Leaped
Leapt
Leaped
45

Learn

Learnt
Learned
Learnt
Learned
61

Smell

Smelt
Smelled
Smelt
Smelled


Spell

Spelt
Spelled
Spelt
Spelled
63

Spill

Spilt
Spilled
Spilt
Spilled


Spoil

Spoilt
Spoiled
Spoilt
Spoiled


Strip

Stript
Stripped
Stript
Stripped


Sunburn

Sunburned
Sunburnt
Sunburned
Sunburnt
69

Sweep

Swept
Sweeped
Swept
Sweeped


Vex

Vext
Vexed
Vext
Vexed


From usingEnglish.com

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