Learn English – ‘Aside from’ Vs ‘Besides’

They are both used as the past tense of burn.

In American English, burned is used much more frequently than burnt. In the Corpus of Contemporary American English, a search for burned returns more than 5 times more results than a search for burnt (11558 for burned vs. 2005 for burnt). Note that in combination with certain nouns, burnt is actually what is in general used: "burnt ivory", "burnt cobalt", "burnt orange", "burnt yellow", "burn toast", "burnt smell", etc.

(For complete table use the compare tool between burned and burnt in the COCA.)

In British English, hovewer, they seem to be used with more similar frequency. In the British National Corpus, a search for burned returns 1435 results and a search for burnt returns 1252 results. Unlike American English, there are many occurrences of burnt as a verb too (e.g. "And I burnt them").

Weltanschauung is used as an English word, from the German because the English worldview is too vague and not comprehensive enough. (For anschauen = to look at, rather with the meaning "to take a good look at", for schau = to show, display, as opposed to blicken = to look, or aussehen from sehen = to see).

Primarily it means a way a person looks at the phenomenon of life as a whole. Some people (particularly those who have not lived very long) have not formed any broad (inclusive, even "sophisticated") view of life. Others consider a large number of factors before forming their overall view — maybe in their seventies — of the phenomenon of human existence. Typically a person's Weltanschauung (as an English word we drop the capital letter required of all German nouns) would include a person's philosophic, moral, and religious conclusions — including e.g. the duality of spirit and matter — and perhaps their conclusions about the origins of the universe and of the development of life. They would also have conclusions about the state, society, politics and economic activity. I suggest def. "A person's conclusions about existence (however tentative) at a particular time of life, after taking a good look at everything they have come across about". What do the German philologists say about my amateur offering?