Earned or earnt?

Well we can have our own preferences on this, but 'earnt' does exist, and even Dickens used it.

'There is conflicting advice on the origin of 'earnt'. Some internet sources state that it is an archaic (out of date/use) form of earned. They will point out that Charles Dickens used it in 1884, yet unlike learnt, dreamt and smelt, 'earnt' does not feature in the OED as a variant. A google search (March 2009) reveals 14,100,000 instances of earnt, but the British National Corpus (1980--1993), which has 100 million words, contains only eight instances of earnt.'

MiniMoon

Earnt is correct, but used mostly in spoken language. It's
more commonly written as earned. It is used like burnt, learnt and so on.
And yes Lucca, it is all correct.

Thank you!

You’ve earned it.
Simples.

My dictionary gives earned, earnt/ burned, burnt/ learned, learnt as being both correct. It adds that the words ending in the letter 't' are an adjective, taken from, American/English.

From that I assume that was once an adjective has now become a verb simply by everyday use.

Earnt is correct, but used mostly in spoken language. It's
more commonly written as earned. It is used like burnt, learnt and so on.
And yes Lucca, it is all correct.

Ex MFL teacher about to hang head in shame and check “learned” vs “learnt”. Please ?
I learned this at school
I have learnt that this is a problem
This is a learnt response

Is that all correct?

I don't think it is a proper word and seems to be used more and more

No