It’s even sillier when you realize (hah!) that -or came from Latin, and -our came from Old French, and both had been used interchangeably in English for at least a century when Samuel Johnson decided to use -our in his dictionary, and Noah Webster decided to use -or. So Britons and Yankees are equally (in)correct.
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psychadlligoat@piefed.social 3 days ago
Always find it funny how the French and British traditionally hate on each other but the British will defend to the death the stupid French shit we stole for our language
the amount of times I've seen people get pissed off at the American English removal of the useless "u" is actually fucking silly
SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 3 days ago
BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 3 days ago
I mean we hate on the french, but it’s mostly good natured ribbing. Also wasn’t most of the french imposed on us post invasion rather than stealing?
pulsewidth@lemmy.world 3 days ago
The English ‘stole’ words from the French in the same way half the European world ‘stole’ Roman roads, words, and customs.
They were colonised by the Normans you silly codswallop. The British retain French words because they were forced on them by the aristocracy a thousand years ago.
buttnugget@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I remember the battle of Hastings like it was yesterday.