Originally posted by: matstars
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_differences
Verb past tenses with -t: Commonwealth dreamt, leapt, learnt, spelt; American dreamed, leaped, learned, spelled. As with the "tre" words, the t endings are occasionally found in American texts. The forms with -ed are also common in Commonwealth usage, and preferred by many as they are weak verbs. (The two-syllable form learnèd /'l??n?d/, usually spelled simply as learned, is still used to mean "educated", or to refer to academic institutions, in both British English and American English.)
