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Simplified English vs Traditional English
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It's not even that. At the time they split, English wasn't as standardized. You can see it looking back in the Lewis and Clark expedition journals written by Meriwether Lewis. He doesn't even have consistency in his own writing, and he was no country bumpkin.
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I mean we already got rid of T.
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You mean we the Bri'ish?
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I see what you did there
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The good ol' glottal stop.
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Check the Declaration of Independence. You'll find the 'u'. Noah Webster was a dick.
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The Declaration was pre standard. It sure was a political decision to land on another standard than the Bri*ish
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I always want to pronounce the American versions of these words phonetically when I see them.
And what the heck is going on with the US pronunciation of “buoy”? None of those syllables are in that word.
Buo-y
Apparently we have the Dutch to blame for that one, as the verb form is apparently descended from Spanish.
I still don't understand the English insistence on borrowing words from other languages, yet refusal to standardize spelling into ways that actually make sense within the language.
So I still blame English for being silly with their transliteration.
Do it backwards, pronounce the British versions