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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

In not the Americans' fault that the English decided to butcher their own language after the US kicked them out

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

The spelling differences are actually mostly due to Noah Webster standardising what he saw as pure Anglo-Saxon English without corruption by French princelings.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Hah, that makes sense.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

England and all its former colonies (except the American ones) agree on the language, and the only odd one out - the United States feels it is unique among former colonies and its parent nation as the sole owner of the most correct version of English.

Seems likely /s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I know this is all a joke, but Canada doesn't share the UK's... proclivities with language