Why doesn't YA answers accept the word learned?

Not all words are in every dictionary, especially ones without any official authority, not officially accepted. I have often used words that have come up misspelled yet, I was sure they were spelled correctly and, upon checking, they were spelled correctly.

When it happens in MS Word, just add it to the dictionary. You will be prompted so it is easy to do. In Yahoo and other online forums, just ignore it. You aren't being judged and graded. If you don't want your work looking like you have a typo or spelling error, use a different word.

Unfortunately, the online OED is by subscription only and that is really the only official dictionary, although the U.S. has written its own and call it their "official" dictionary (MW). Some others may strive to be as good but, they cannot possibly be as good as the OED and, personally, I think the people who publish the other dictionaries only try to make theirs good enough that they have some observance. Copying the number 1 authority, mostly written by a highly educated man who dedicated most of his life to writing it (not exactly by choice) is not possible and so, others are written/published by companies who do what they can with the funds they have or have allotted.

Read "The Professor And The Madman". It is a fascinating true story about how the OED came about and how the author of most of the entries came to write them.

Nothing to do with YA. Force Spellchecker to accept the word by hitting "add to dictionary" after double clicking the underlined word. It won't bother you again.

The bowdlerization is definitely YA's fault. A Bronx cheer ;-P to them for that.

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Y! Answers is not the best grammarian or arbiter of style, around. However, it is over-anxious about being PC.

It does not "allow" sub- or superscripts. A mathematician cannot write x³ or even x². Chemists cannot write most formulas.

A physicist cannot write about α, β or γ rays without spelling out "alpha, beta or gamma" rays.

If you graduate with great honors, your brag turns into "summa *** laude", even though the word *** is on your diploma.

Maybe some day we will be given a decent editor.

YA does not mark 'learned' as misspelled when I use it. Maybe you should add it to your dictionary, or double check to make sure you are not spelling it 'leanred'.

because people don't care about the proper grammar anymore

They don't know whether to make it a verb or adjective.