• Squirrel@thelemmy.club
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    6 months ago

    I think spellings and punctuation are still valid. Mostly. Ignore variations between English and Americanese.

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      6 months ago

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

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        6 months ago

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

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        5 months ago

        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

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          5 months ago

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