Learned or learnt ?

[MiniMonty]

What say you?

I'm seeing homework and I'm railing against certain spellings that go unchecked and unmolested.
Dreamed or dreamt?
Learnt or learned?
(there are many others).

I am perfectly happy for the language to evolve and change - hang on - no I'm not...

So what say you?

I pronounce them differently, so for me it's "I learned that in 1995" but "yes, DS1 has learnt his spellings".

As for adjectives, it's "my learned friend" (lur-nid) but "learnt behaviours" (lurnt).

Past tenses - either leant, learnt, burnt or leaned, learned, burned is fine, so long as consistent.

Smelled or smelt?

They are the same. Both are quite correctly used as past tense and past participle in British English.

Unless you're using 'smelt' to describe processing steel, of course.