Comment on American and British English spelling and pronunciations
scheep@lemmy.world 1 week ago
like I spell it as “centre” and it seems perfectly fine even though phonetically it doesn’t make much sense
Comment on American and British English spelling and pronunciations
scheep@lemmy.world 1 week ago
like I spell it as “centre” and it seems perfectly fine even though phonetically it doesn’t make much sense
saltesc@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Thanks to coding, I see center as a position and centre as an object. But for the most part, I find US spelling to be lazy spelling for poor pronunciation. Like people just started saying the word wrong and rather than fixing that, just started spelling it wrong too.
Aluminium is prob the weirdest. Like everything on the periodic table ending with -ium; the Latin morpheme in chemistry. But the US just-…like, how?!
PyroVK@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
I would like to point you to Platinum, and inform you that Aluminum came first.
Wahots@pawb.social 1 week ago
Platinium :3