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>"Coding tricks I learnt at Apple"

I'd wager "learning how to properly use 'learned'" wasn't one of them.

http://www.urch.com/forums/english/9214-learned-vs-learnt.ht... "The descriptive answer in American English is: There is no such word as "learnt". Use "learned" always."

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Hate to break it to you, but not everyone on the Internets speaks American English.

You don't sound like you hate it one bit.

Ignoring that the submission title doesn't accurately reflect the original title, and even though you might be right, I'm having trouble understanding your decision to cite a 2004 post by user "Rommie" of the Urch forums as an authority on American English.

The article's title is "Tricks I Learned At Apple: Steve Jobs Load Testing"; the use of "learnt" must have been from whiskers who posted it.

I'm from the UK - learnt is perfectly valid here!

<nod> I wasn't asserting that you were wrong, only that the user to whom I replied that implied the author of the article used it incorrectly was wrong in his assertion.

With that sentence construction, you could be a lawyer :)

With that sentence construction, he must be a Perl programmer.

Thanks... I think? I'm a programmer by trade, and perl is but one of many languages I use with regular frequency.

Yeah, but so is 'kilt'.

In the US, we consider that poor grammar, as in: "I done did kilt three of 'em skeeters on me yesterday."

OK, maybe yours is a noun, but still!

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