On a random note, is it common in Australia to say "learnt" and "earnt" instead of "learned" and "earned"?
*nods* Yup. It is probably completely wrong grammatically, but I don't think I've met any Australian - including lecturers at university level - who didn't use 'learnt' / 'earnt.' Perhaps we're crazy? :)
It's actually grammatically perfect. For 19th century England ;) I've noticed that Australia tends to retain older forms longer than England (and most certainly longer than us here in the US. We've pretty much dropped -t endings altogether in common speech, though I'll always prefer leapt over leaped.)
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Date: 2008-02-14 07:28 am (UTC)It's actually grammatically perfect. For 19th century England ;) I've noticed that Australia tends to retain older forms longer than England (and most certainly longer than us here in the US. We've pretty much dropped -t endings altogether in common speech, though I'll always prefer leapt over leaped.)