This forum is a Moderator choice forum for moving posts that exibit particularly outstanding contributions of information about firearms. Only posts that move past the main page make it here for a second look by choice of the moderators.
Moderators: DuncaninFrance, Niner Delta, Niner, joseyclosey, Miller Tyme, PeterN2, dhtaxi, Aughnanure, blackisler
-
DuncaninFrance
- Global Moderator Sponsor 2011-2017
- Posts: 11068
- Joined: Fri Oct 06, 2006 3:08 pm
- Location: S.W.France
-
Contact:
Post
by DuncaninFrance » Thu Jul 21, 2011 3:39 am
From the Oxford English Dictionary...................
learn
n verb
(past and past participle learned or chiefly British learnt)
1 acquire knowledge of or skill in (something) through study or experience or by being taught. Øcommit to memory. Øbecome aware of by information or from observation.
2 archaic or dialect teach.
DERIVATIVES
learnability noun
learnable adjective
learner noun
ORIGIN
Old English leornian, of West Germanic origin; related to lore1.
learned
n adjective having or characterized by much knowledge or erudition.
DERIVATIVES
learnedly adverb
learnedness noun
Might clear it up a bit Robert
Duncan
What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch? -- W.C. Fields
"Many of those who enjoy freedom know little of its price."
You can't fix Stupid, but you can occasionally head it off before it hurts something.
-
Niner
- Site Admin
- Posts: 11750
- Joined: Sat Mar 15, 2003 1:00 pm
- Location: Lower Alabama
Post
by Niner » Thu Jul 21, 2011 5:38 am
That tells the origins alright.....back before the fork in the road. Just wonder what was the fork and why was it in the road?
-
DuncaninFrance
- Global Moderator Sponsor 2011-2017
- Posts: 11068
- Joined: Fri Oct 06, 2006 3:08 pm
- Location: S.W.France
-
Contact:
Post
by DuncaninFrance » Thu Jul 21, 2011 7:37 am
That is the "two nations separated by a single language" answer
Duncan
What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch? -- W.C. Fields
"Many of those who enjoy freedom know little of its price."
You can't fix Stupid, but you can occasionally head it off before it hurts something.
-
deadin
- Site Sponsor 2016
- Posts: 158
- Joined: Tue Nov 06, 2007 10:13 am
- Location: Ocean Shores, WA
Post
by deadin » Fri Oct 07, 2011 10:17 am
I just found this thread and enjoyed it (Especially the bits about accents)
A good example would be my youngest son, born in Japan while we were stationed there. ( career US Navy)
Transferred to Texas about the time he was learning to talk. Then to Virginia where he went to kindergarten and pre-school and, finally to Seattle where he started 1st Grade.
We were called in by his teacher who wanted to know if we were seeing a therapist as our son had a speech impediment....
-
DuncaninFrance
- Global Moderator Sponsor 2011-2017
- Posts: 11068
- Joined: Fri Oct 06, 2006 3:08 pm
- Location: S.W.France
-
Contact:
Post
by DuncaninFrance » Fri Oct 07, 2011 1:52 pm
AW SHI!
Duncan
What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch? -- W.C. Fields
"Many of those who enjoy freedom know little of its price."
You can't fix Stupid, but you can occasionally head it off before it hurts something.
-
Aughnanure
- Moderator
- Posts: 3188
- Joined: Wed Jun 22, 2005 5:59 am
- Location: Glen Innes, NSW, Australia
Post
by Aughnanure » Fri Oct 07, 2011 4:46 pm
Learnt/learned; seems that the US is still a repository of original English.
Self Defence is not only a Right, it is an Obligation.
Eoin.
