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"I don't appreciate you Brits using/changing our language without consent" (lem.sabross.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago

Some English used in the US was deprecated on main, but it still was in use in the fork.

American English used a number of things that fell out of fashion in GB/UK, but the US kept them. It also doesn't help that some non-major GB dialects were over-represented in some early settlements