Very Interesting. How'd you get so smart? I know, it's the clean Canadian air right.
Jan
rudy wrote:
I lost a lot of backup files I had on cds I burnt (rudy is that right or should it be burned?), really need to get better quality.
http://www.onestopenglish.com/ProfessionalSupport/ask/vocabulary_bowen.htm
The verbs burn, dream, lean, learn, smell, spill and spoil are all regular in American English and are written as burned, dreamed, leaned etc.
In British English they can be regular but irregular past tenses and participles with -t� tend to be more common (burnt, dreamt, leant etc).
If you would like to make a generalised distinction in British English, it could be argued that the -t form of the past participle is more likely to be found in prenominal adjectival position than the -ed� form. For example:
I don't like burnt toast. I don't like burned toast
The latter seems odd in British English. Arguably, the �-ed form is more common as the past simple form of the verb, as in:
He burned all his old photos.
;o)
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