Give me something juicy

  • ageedizzle@piefed.caOP
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    1 day ago

    We need to standardise English, and we need to accept the US won in spelling.

    As a Canadian I cannot accept this. To drop the U in ‘colour’ would be an affront to my dignity

    • neidu3@sh.itjust.worksM
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      12 hours ago

      Even as someone with English as my 2nd language, I know that “Colour” is the proper spelling.

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          Saying it out loud sounds like “Kulla”

          Also, do you mean to tell me Canadians DO pronounce the U in colour like brochure?

          • ageedizzle@piefed.caOP
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            Haa I can just hear the Australian accent in my head when I read “Kulla”. Very nice.

            And yes, we do pronounce the U as in brochure (“cul-lure”). But the francaphones say it like “cool-lurrrre” so idek what’s going in there. But I’m pretty sure a lot of Americans pronounce the U tho just like they do in Canadian English.

            So maybe the optimal solution here for the Americans to add a U and the Australians to drop it, and the French Canadians can keep doing whatever the hell they’re doing if their neat little accents.