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In the first place, "romanization" of English is unstandardized! Or was that unstandardised?

• adastra22 11mo ago
  It tends to be standardized within a single country.
  • qingcharles 11mo ago
    Whoosh :)
    • adastra22 11mo ago
      No I understood. I just failed to see the relevance.
  • merelysounds 11mo ago
    Standardizations can be notoriously inconsistent[1], disregarded[2] or evolve fast[3]. There’s a surprising amount of interesting articles on wikipedia about that. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ough_(orthography)#Spelling_reforms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ough_(orthography)#Spelling_re... [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_dialect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_dialect [3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensational_spelling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensational_spelling
  • deleted 11mo ago
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  • aidenn0 11mo ago
    Is it hiccough or hiccup in the US?
  • jagged-chisel 11mo ago
    And standardised within an empire.