Comment on "English"

thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• teft@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Ours is the traditional pronunciation. You fucks changed it after we left because you didn’t like to sound like provincial rebels.

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  • MadBob@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Christ, we can’t even have a c/britishproblems without the yanks coming and sticking their oars in.

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    • teft@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      We’re like your little brother that keeps popping up when you least expect him.

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  • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    We didn’t start talking like “yeehaw partner this gas station has some skibidi rizz, no cap fanum tax!”

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• dvlsg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  To be fair, English could really use some simplification. It’s fucking bonkers.

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  • sik0fewl@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Webster should have spelled the words the way they sounded while he was dropping all those u’s.

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