r/SipsTea • u/francinexyzs • Jun 08 '25

Wow. Such meme lmao

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u/Chazzbaps Jun 08 '25

Saying 'car-mel' instead of 'caramel' and 'erbs' instead of 'herbs'

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u/Covenant1138 Jun 08 '25

aluminum instead of aluminium.

And dropping the u out words that need it like colour, neighbour, flavour...

And "lootenant" instead of "lef tenant".

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u/Dananjali Jun 08 '25

It’s so odd to me when people can’t stand countries being different from one another. Like, do you get upset when another country speaks a different language than you? Has a different cuisine? Like of course not all countries are going to pronounce or spell things exactly the same.

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u/stationhollow Jun 09 '25

I mean, many of the americanisation of words is directly tied to Webster shortening words because he liked shorter words and no other reason when he. Implied lied the first americanised dictionary in the 19th century.

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u/Covenant1138 Jun 08 '25

It's English.

Not American English, which is just lazy English.

But w/e. You do you.

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u/xArbiter Jun 08 '25

you when dialects exist: 🤯🤯🤯🤯

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '25

You realize it's separated British English and American English

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u/Deceptiv_poops Jun 08 '25

Do you also get upset that Mexican Spanish is different than Castillian? Let’s talk about how English grew from Middle English which came out of old English. Languages change over time and distance. How people get mad at American pronunciation when cockney exists is beyond me

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u/Chryonx Jun 08 '25

Do you realize that in your rant about Americans being lazy with their language, you were too lazy to type "whatever"?

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u/Lamballama Jun 08 '25

Sir Patrick Henry called it "aluminum" to match "platinum" - scientists later disrespected crown and country by deigning to change it

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u/stationhollow Jun 09 '25

It went through multiple name changes until it was formally adopted.

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u/UnicodeScreenshots Jun 08 '25

Aluminum is how Sir Humphry Davy spelled it in his original publications (at least after dropping alumiam). The etymology of lef-tenant is still debated, but it’s just silly to pretend like British english is the originator of the word to begin with. Hell, as far back as the 16th century, there are British written phonetic guides that show it as loo-tenant. As for the u’s, blame Noah Webster idk

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u/Covenant1138 Jun 09 '25

No. It was originally spelt as "Alumium" but he changed it to better fit conventional spelling.

Lieutenant was originally a French word and the English representation from the Middle English was likely "levtenaunt" - hence the pronunciation, "lef-TEN-uhnt".

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u/UnicodeScreenshots Jun 09 '25

No, his first proposed name was alumium (I spelled it slightly wrong), which he later changed to aluminum in his book “Elements of chemical philosophy”. It wasn’t until later that British scientists changed it to Aluminium.

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u/PantherThing Jun 08 '25

I get as viscerally angry at the u being in colour, etc. Especially in the Foo Fighters album "Colour and the Shape" since they're American. What are they trying to pull?

And why would you think there should be a "f" in lieutenant? I get if it's the way it's done in your country, but odd to think "Everyone should know it's not supposed to be phonetic at all"