Comment on is it spelled "grey" or "gray"?

• Kalothar@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Are you being like pedantic or just trying to make it more simple?

  (Otherwise North America and specially the United States have the majority of English speakers in the world, so there is a realistic distinction between U.K. / European English and American English and both are equally correct evolutions of their English roots )

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  • quill7513@anarchist.nexus ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    it’s a mnemonic to help people remember, not pedantry

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  • akwd169@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    English as in England, the country

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    • Codpiece@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • Codpiece@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I don’t know why you’re getting downvoted either.

    To answer your question it’s neither and both. I can appreciate it might seem pedantic from an American point of view, but not from ours. It’s our language, created here and named after us, it doesn’t require the British/European prefix. It is simply English.

    American, Canadian and Australian English should have suffixes as simpler variations of the default.

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  • MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Sadly because of learning materials and the media, a lot of mainland Europeans that learn English often learn American English mannerisms. I remember in college there was a girl everyone thought was American to begin with but she just happened to be Spanish.

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  • ohulancutash@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Only if we’re very inclusive in our definition of “English”.

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• quick_snail@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This makes the Scottish very mad

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  • Codpiece@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The Scottish want to claim something English as theirs? When did that start?

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