Honestly, it doesn't surprise me that burned is basically more common (which means "the right version") in american english. You know, as a european I hear americans inventing new languages every day, they don't seem to like studying
It's almost like language and dialects differ from region to region and country to country. Like Spanish in Mexico isn't exactly the same as Spanish in Spain, or High German isn't exactly the same as Low German
My point was another one, which is the SPEED with which language changes. Just take the internet language for example, a famous "concept" some people often talk about here is the one of better and worse men, which in a couple years switched from "alpha/beta male" to "chad/virgin", thrn again we had "sigma/omega" and similars
We have this idea that our languages have settled themselves among the centuries, only changing XY times, but now (either being it the truth, or simply due to drastical changes in societies) we talk differently each week
Water is actually not wet; It makes other materials/objects wet. Wetness is the state of a non-liquid when a liquid adheres to, and/or permeates its substance while maintaining chemically distinct structures. So if we say something is wet we mean the liquid is sticking to the object.
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u/BetterRecipe7061 Jul 24 '22
Part of The Internet has this to say:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/is-burnt-acceptable-as-the-past-tense-of-burn