Lessons learnt or learned ??

AnonymousOK, confused re the correct 'UK / English' spelling - is it lessons learned or lessons learnt - or does it not matter?

Thanks in advance for your help.

I'm a Yank who uses "learned". As far as I know, our British cousins use "learnt" and pronounce it as it appears.

This should answer your question:

What is the difference between learned and 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 ver

AnonymousIn British English, both forms are correct.- This isn't true!!

As a ESOL teacher in Britain, I don't object to students using American spellings and grammar providing they are aware that they are using them and using them for everything. Learned is incorrect in BrE. (In fact the first time I saw it on this site, I contacted a Native Amer

If I remember well what I learned at the highschool in latin (it was 45 year ago) terms gerundium and gerundivum were two different forms of a verb: learnt supposed to be used together with an auxiliere verb, while the other is an adjective/adverb from the verb learn. It replies on the question which lessons, what type of lessons? Just in the context of lessons learned is learned an adjective and

I always considered it in terms of past perfect or past imperfect; that is to say the choice of phrase should be determined by whether you are referring to a discrete event (I learnt a valuable lesson that day) or an ongoing experience (we learned to respect each other's views).

So you might say "what have we learnt today?" or "as a child, I learned to play the flute"

just my opi

In UK English, learned is an adjective and is pronounced as lurn-id. An example use:
These are learned professors (i.e. with much knowledge).
On the other hand, learnt (pronounced lurnt) is the past tense of learn.
Hence, the statement "lessons learnt" is about the lessons that were learnt from a particular experience.

AnonymousIn UK English, learned is an adjective and is pronounced as lurn-id. An example use:
These are learned professors (i.e. with much knowledge). On the other hand, learnt (pronounced lurnt) is the past tense of learn.Hence, the statement "lessons learnt" is about the lessons that were learnt from a particular experience.

In any English, either B

Dave Phillips Learned is incorrect in BrE. (In fact the first time I saw it on this site, I contacted a Native American Speaker to check it was correct).

...This is complete nonsense. Both "learnt" and "learned" are absolutely standard British English (with "learned" listed first in Chambers 21st Century Dictionary).
In the fixed expression "lessons learne

Anonymouslessons that were learnt from a particular experience.

This is the point I'm having trouble with.

As a 'Brit' one might assume I would always write 'learnt', or at least be OK reading/writing it in most cases. But I was just reading through some blog posts where the author consistently referred to "lessons must be learnt" or "lessons will ha

As a kid ( 50 years ago ) I was taught that learn is an irregular verb and its pp is learnt. My teacher was 100% American, born, raised and graduated as an English teacher in the US. Therefore, this “americanization” of verbs, turning them from irregular to regular is a fairly new thing ( if you consider that changes to a language over a 50 year period is not that long ).