Comment on American and British English spelling and pronunciations

AcesFullOfKings@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• JacksonLamb@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Depends on the tense.

  I burn the toast.

  I have burned the toast

  I burrnt the toast

  I had burnt the toast

  Using burned in all of them sounds like a hillbilly.

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  • AcesFullOfKings@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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    • JacksonLamb@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      If you use the wrong past tense all the time, that will definitely make you sound like a hillbilly.

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• Wahots@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Dropping the U’s from words such as “colour” - I get the simplification argument and I’d take or leave them, but I’m pro-U.

  The pronunciation seems slightly different too, Color (Kolor) vs colour (coul-err). Or at least I pronounce them slightly differently depending on which word I read.

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