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Pedants' corner

I am foreign so I might very well be wrong about teach and learn but

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Gorionine · 20/03/2009 13:09

"That will learn them"? Should it not be "That will teach them"?

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PandaG · 20/03/2009 13:12

yes it should be that will teach them, but that'll larn'em' (said, in my grandad's case, in a thick Norfolk accent) is colloquial. I would say 'that'll larn'em' knowing it was wrong in an informal situation.

Gorionine · 20/03/2009 13:18

Thanks, that'll larn me for being so pedant!

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