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Earnt vs Earst - What's the difference?

earnt | earst |

As a verb earnt

is (chiefly british) (earn).

As an adverb earst is

.

earnt

English

Alternative forms

* earned (standard spelling)

Verb

(head)
  • (chiefly British) (earn)

    • Usage notes

    * Written, this is an uncommon (<0.5% as common as (earned) in the British National Corpus) but entirely acceptable alternative form of the simple past and past participle earned . This form is, however, more commonly spoken than written. Other verbs which can be conjugated in this way are: learn (learnt), dream (dreamt), spell (spelt).

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    * British English forms

    earst

    English

    Adverb

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  • * 1590 , , The Faerie Queene (1921), Book I:
    • So th' one for wrong, the other strives for right, And each to deadly shame would drive his foe: The cruell steele so greedily doth bight 75 In tender flesh that streames of bloud down flow, With which the armes, that earst so bright did show, Into a pure vermillion now are dyde: Great ruth in all the gazers harts did grow, Seeing the gored woundes to gape so wyde, 80 That victory they dare not wish to either side.
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