Originally posted by Revernd MaynardA quote from "AskOxford.com":
learnt?
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. There are a number of verbs of this type (burn, dream, kneel, lean, leap, spell, spill, spoil etc.). They are all irregular verbs, and this is a part of their irregularity.
So, Mr American, shove your way of spelling up your ass, and pick up the Oxford English Dictionary - the correct way of doing things