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Did you really just [sic] a British guy using British spelling?

• MBCook 4mo ago
  Is that a British spelling? Oops. Honestly my computer gave it a red underline so I decided to do that. I didn’t think about it harder than that. If I recognized it like “colour” I wouldn’t have.
  • spider-mario 4mo ago
    It would be a good habit to check (for example on the Wiktionary – I have a Chrome search keyword dedicated to that) because those are not the only differences. fulfill vs. fulfil judgment vs. judgement disk vs. disc (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/disk#Usage_notes https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/disk#Usage_notes) hiccup vs. hiccough diarrhea vs. diarrhoea
    • M2Ys4U 4mo ago
      >judgment vs. judgement In British English "judgment" without the 'e' is generally only used for talking about judicial rulings, whereas most other uses of the word contain the 'e'.
  • ndsipa_pomu 4mo ago
    It's fairly common for us to use "-ise" instead of "-ize", but having now looked at Wikipedia on the subject, it appears that I incorrectly thought of "-ize" as an Americanism. The "-ize" suffix predates "-ise" - it comes from ancient Greek/Latin whereas "-ise" comes from French.
  • leephillips 4mo ago
    And the “[sic]” is followed by an incorrect attempt to form a conditional. Both problems arise from the same cause.
  • JCattheATM 4mo ago
    > my computer gave it a red underline so I decided to do that. Why? You were quoting text so it would never be confused for yours anyway.