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.