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[–] frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

It's everyone's language, everyone can bully each other over it. The Brits added u to a bunch of words just to fuck with us..and then misspelled tire. Just last week heard an upper class indian with more British roots give a more Americanized indian man shit for spelling it tire rather than tyre, with zero knowledge of the history.

On the whole I think English speakers are relatively polite about misunderstood words in person, even relatively racist asshats. But when you can't read the accent, you default to your own culture and in that culture it's pronounced to rhyme with tamales.

[–] Neon@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

My brother in christ, the british spelling is the original.

The reason you spell it differently was a conscious decision of your revolutionaries to differentiate themselves from the brits

You used the same spelling before your independence.

And how about "noone can bully" instead of "everyone can bully"?

Just throwing tht in the room here.

I won't bully you for writing "recognise" just to assert your independence, you let us be us and everyone is happy, is tht a Deal?

[–] frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

No, it's not, go learn history. Its a mix and match on both sides usually because spelling wasn't standard anyway. Webster picked ones he liked, mostly to feel superior to Brits, Brits picked the opposite to feel superior to americans. We have the legacy accent, uk has the posh accent to sound different. We did simplify some words, Brits complexified others to be more posh.

[–] Neon@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

The british spelling comes from the conquest of the duke of normandy and was already being standardized before your independence.

This is again such a us-centric way of thinking.

"We are so important the british chnged their entire language just to spite us"

I really don't want to be rude when I say this, but I can't find any better qords: please get out of your bubble. This US-centrism really annoys others.

And don't tell people to "go learn history". It's just bloody rude, even if you would have been right.