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From your site, Max:
He was learnt, travelled around Europe and was a close friend of the Earl of Southampton to whom the Shakespeare sonnets are believed to be dedicated.
I would have said "He was learned", meaning having mastered abstruse academic knowledge. Is "He was learnt" standard in NZ?
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Quote:
From your site, Max:
He was learnt, travelled around Europe and was a close friend of the Earl of Southampton to whom the Shakespeare sonnets are believed to be dedicated.
I would have said "He was learned", meaning having mastered abstruse academic knowledge. Is "He was learnt" standard in NZ?
I don't know about "standard". I guess a lot depends on how well the writer was teacht.
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USns generally pernounces it learn-ed with two syllables in that meaning. Kinda hard to reconcile that with the spelling learnt.
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An Elizabethan spelling, perhaps?
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> Elizabethan spelling
certainly not Tori...
formerly known as etaoin...
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A spelling checker miscorrection mayhaps? A software glitch? A bug in the onion? I stand by Mercutio Florio, son of John, as the true Shagsberd. All others pale amongst the groundlings. MF was suggested by Friderico Georgi (pseudonym of Franz Maximilian Saalbach).
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William Shakespeare, alias Mercutio Florio, von Friderico Georgi. Although it may have been written by Erich Gerwien. (It was self-published in Heidelberg. I've browsed a typescript.)
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Well, I'm partial to believing Willie was really Shakespeare. But if I had my druthers with the other theories, I'll take the Bacon.
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