Re: irregularities

Elliott Lash wrote:
>Actually, I've grouped these verbs into a "class" something like this:
>
>sleep > slept
>leave > left
>dream > dreamt
>*learn > learnt (learned)
>meet > met
>keep > kept
>read > read
>
>basically the requirement is that they be weak and have the vowel /i/ in
>the present and /E/ in the past. I don't know if this is a valid category
>for most linguists...but I certainly classify them like that.
I say "learnt", but otherwise that's the forms I learnt(!) in school, and
the one I normally use too.

Now, what about "burnt"/"burned"? Both spellings are considered correct,
right? For some reason, /b@(r)nd/ sounds wrong to my (non-native) ears - I
say /b@(r)nt/. What about you natives?

                                                     Andreas
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