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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

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?

That is the "two nations separated by a single language" answer

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....

AW SHI!

Learnt/learned; seems that the US is still a repository of original English.