2022-01-04 ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด – B – Burned – burnt

2022-01-04

ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด – B – Burned – burnt

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Dictionary of Problem Words and Expressions

Burned – burnt

 

Each of these forms is correctly considered a principal part 

of the verb to burn: burn, burned or burnt (past tense),

burned or burnt (past participle).

 

Don’t worry about which form to use; use the one you prefer.

 

However, it would be well to avoid both 

when you mean “disillusioned” or “cheated”; 

also, “to burn oneself out” is exceptionally trite phase, 

as in “burned up” (angry”).

 

Merriam-Webster Dictionary:

burned or burnt

Usage Notes

Is 'burnt' acceptable as the past tense of 'burn'?

Don't let either one burn you up

 

What to Know

Both burned and burnt are acceptable forms of burn. 

Both words can be used as adjectives, 

such as "burnt toast" or "burned toast," 

and both are acceptable as the past tense, 

although "burned" is more common in American English.

 

Burned, burnt: which one's right?

The answer is: yes.

If you're describing things—that is, 

using the past participle of burn as an adjective

—you very well may find that burnt sounds better to your ear. 

 

Burnt sugar and burnt toast, for example, 

are both significantly more common 

in published, edited text than burned sugar or burned toast are. 

(Burnt also features in the color names burnt umber and burnt sienna.

 

'Burned' is the usual past tense of 'burn', but 'burnt' 

is common in many contexts when the past participle is used as an adjective ("burnt toast"). Both are acceptable forms.

 

But if you're using the past tense of burn as a ho-hum verb, 

talking perhaps about the toast you've just overtoasted, 

burned is likely to be your choice. 

Unless you're a speaker of British English 

or have been binge-watching "Sherlock." In American English, 

burned is usually past tense.

 

Usual or not, though, both burnt and burned are acceptable forms.

 

There was a time, by the way, when brent was a legitimate past tense too. 

That form seems to have peaked in the 1500s, 

but if you want to throw it into conversation just for fun we won't criticize.

 

Merriam-Webster Dictionary:

Burn noun 

Medical Definition of burn (Entry 2 of 2)

1: bodily injury resulting from exposure to heat, caustics, electricity, or some radiations, 

marked by varying degrees of skin destruction and hyperemia 

often with the formation of watery blisters 

and in severe cases by charring of the tissues, 

and classified according to the extent and degree of the injury

— see FIRST-DEGREE BURN, SECOND-DEGREE BURN, THIRD-DEGREE BURN

 

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language,

burn (bûrn) noun Scots =

A small stream; a brook.

[Middle English, from Old English burna; 

see bhreu- in Indo-European roots.]

 

Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary

burn (bɜrn) noun Scot. =

a brook or rivulet.

[before 900; Middle English b(o)urne, Old English burna, brunna brook]

 

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014

Burned (bɜːnd) – adj. =

having been cheated in a sale of drugs.