• delitomatoes@lemm.ee
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    6 days ago

    I’ve seen it on Reddit for the past 10 years, I think Americans can’t spell

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      6 days ago

      At first I get annoyed at people confusing the two, but I remember there’s a lot of non native English speakers. And it’s words like this that make it such a hard language to figure out.

    • Nima@leminal.space
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      I’m the one who corrected them. I’m an american. quit being weird about americans for no reason.

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      5 days ago

      As an American you’re right. Hell, a lot of Americans can’t even speak. I now a lot of engineers that pronounce “height” as “heighth”