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Originally Posted by queentess
I did, however, recently come across the word "leant"... that one threw me. I honestly thought it should have been "leaned".
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Both leant and leaned are used in the UK. Dialecticon shows it's much more common in British and Australian English than in American or Canadian English.
I suspect that leant is actually more common in the UK than leaned. UK web sites often carry text from US sources, which affects Dialecticon's results.
http://www.chaucery.com/fun/dialecti...phrase2=leaned