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Sort of. I am seeing American spellings invading here a lot. "Jail" is well established now, but "color" etc are coming in.
by nephihaha 11mo ago
Sort of. I am seeing American spellings invading here a lot. "Jail" is well established now, but "color" etc are coming in.
- vatsachak 11mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_spelling_differences https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_s... Where is "here"? They've been a thing for 200 years so I'm curious
- nephihaha 11mo ago"Where is here?" Not the USA. :)
- nkrisc 11mo agoSure, there are some recent exceptions. But nearly all words that contain vowel pairs like “ea” and “ai”, for example, represent a much older pronunciation regardless of the current one. Words like “hear” and “wear” would have rhymed at one point. Most words ending in “ed” would have had that syllable fully pronounced instead of reduced to a “t” sound. That vast majority of words among all English dialects are spelled similarly and go back to the 16th century or thereabouts.