Burned vs Burnt

[Mike Hoxbig]

Burned: past tense of the verb "burn"
"The fire burned the wood"

Burnt: adjective to describe something that has been burned.
"The wood is burnt"

Now do learned vs learnt...

 

[Polymathic]

Now do learned vs learnt...

I have learnt but never learned,
dreamt but never had dreamed,
spilt but never ever spilled
and he who smelt always dealt it but never ever dealed it.