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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is Webster, named after the guy who butchered English for fun and fame? It's like dunning-kruger became a linguistic architect.

[โ€“] warbond 3 points 5 months ago

Wasn't he trying to simplify it? He's the reason for most of our Americanized spellings, I'm pretty sure.