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• maryjayjay@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No, we call jam jam. Jelly is maybe purely of the juice of a fruit or berry, thickened with pectin and with added sugar. If you use the whole fruit smooshed up but with chunks we call it preserves. We also call marmalade marmalade. It’s made primarily of the skin of citrus fruit, but you probably know that

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  • StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Tl;dr: you’re on the Internet. Before authoritatively and incorrectly correcting someone, consider using it to verify that you’re actually correct first.

      They responded to “US people say this” with “no, US people actually say this”. Then you said “Hey, there are places other than the US”.

      Maybe before you correct someone you should check the thread you’re responding to.

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      • JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Despite all that effort, he’s wrong as well. I’m born and raised in London, UK and we most certainly have differentiations. The description of preserves having elements of the real fruit is the same in the UK: I can go to the local supermarket right now and the shelf will have different sections for jams, preserves, and marmalades (which the person they were replying to were also correct in their description).
        The thing I haven’t seen is American Jelly, as Jelly here is the same as Jell-O in the US.

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      • StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        When someone correctly says in the context of UK English “the yanks call (UK English A) (US English B)!” and they respond “no, we call (US English B) (US English B)” and proceeds to provide a US centric lecture of nomenclature, they tend to be contradicting them. On their own geographically correct usage of the word.

        Corollary example also appropriate for the US. MtF person recently transitions and word is spreading.

        Person 1: They even call Roy Martha. Person 2: No, I call Roy Roy.

        The only thing better than getting lectured on reading comprehension is being lectured by someone who didn’t comprehend the reading.

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    • meekah@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Its kinda funny how much effort you put into this comment, despite the context explicitly being about US English

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      • StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The literal first comment in the thread mentions a confusion of the non-American vs American “world” in reference to naming.

        The next highlights a difference in US English versus English elsewhere.

        I’d long to hear how the context is solely US English.

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