• xylol@leminal.space
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        2 days ago

        As an American I don’t know where I learned to spell everything with a u like colour or amoung as a kid but I was so confused when my phone kept correcting me

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          ‘Amoung’ just looks wrong to me. I don’t know if it’s just another classic English exemption from the rule, or the game has forever changed my perception.

          Rather like what tumblr did to ‘tumbler’.

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            I can find no reference to amoung, and have never seen it spelt like that. We’re either getting trolled or there’s a lie being told somewhere, because I’ve never, ever heard of this.

            Source: Canadian; proficient with there, their and they’re.

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              I don’t know what to tell you haha that’s just how I spelt it growing up until I saw a band that spelled it among and had to look it up, I think just having the o without the u felt strange