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rambambramtoday at 7:39 AM1 replyview on HN

I'm not a native English speaker, but since when became 'lessons' a 'learnings'?


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defrosttoday at 7:45 AM

As a native (Commonwaelth) english speaker of six decades+ .. it only really "appeared" in frequency during the past decade, more heavily in the past five years or so, in central north American settings.

Grammerly will tell us:

  Despite being more popular than “lessons” in the corporate setting, “learnings” is still incorrect. It's an erroneous plural form of the colloquial term “learning.”
~ https://grammarist.com/usage/learnings/

As a business-speak buzz-word it might fade, or it may end up with a greater global footprint outside of the Biz-speak Babel tower.