It's honestly kind of wild how unpopular Roosevelt's ideas for English spelling reform were.

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• Opisek@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That led me down a rabbit hole. Not a deep one though.

  Edit: Or should I say “tho”

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  • chais@sh.itjust.works@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Which one is the new one?

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    • Opisek@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      “Tho” is. I absolutely lost it when I saw “thoro”.

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• mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Every effort to fix English just adds more exceptions. Meanwhile everything written beforehand, or elsewhere, still uses the old way, so you often need to learn both versions.

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  • robottoaster@mander.xyz@mander.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Þæt wæs langsum earfoþness.

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• DarkCloud@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  In Australia it gave us the Labor party rather than the Labour Party… Even though we use British spellings for everything else.

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• arctanthrope@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  • call_me_xale@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Looks like it’s referring to this

    Roosevelt tried to force the federal government to adopt the system, sending an order to the Public Printer to use the system in all public federal documents. The order was obeyed; among the many documents printed using the system was the President’s special message regarding the Panama Canal.

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  • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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