Comment on Anon is Bri’ish

• breecher@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It is definitely an American who censored it.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s an odd one because it wasn’t even a word in common usage until about 50 years ago, so I don’t understand where the Americans got their attitude from since it appears to have been entirely self-generated.

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    • pohart@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      From Wikipedia

      It goes back to at least the year 1230, and was excluded from the OED from the 18th century until 1960. So it wasn’t just Americans.

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• pi3r8@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s practically punctuation here in Scotland.

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• bampop@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You must be thinking of Australian

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• WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My wife just told me otherwise.

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