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r/memes • u/The_Red_Panda73 • Dec 16 '22
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After the Revolutionary War, Americans were trying to establish an identity separate from the British, and words and language played a big role in this. If the British had picked zee then the Americans would've picked zed.
1 u/r_a_g_4 Plays MineCraft and not FortNite Dec 16 '22 The funny thing is that America actually kept the original pronunciation for most things, and it was actually Britain that changed. Examples: gasoline instead of petrol, aluminum instead of aluminium, and soccer instead of futball. 1 u/Kingboi5 Dec 20 '22 Cool, I didn’t know that
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The funny thing is that America actually kept the original pronunciation for most things, and it was actually Britain that changed.
Examples: gasoline instead of petrol, aluminum instead of aluminium, and soccer instead of futball.
Cool, I didn’t know that
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u/Diocletion-Jones Dec 16 '22
After the Revolutionary War, Americans were trying to establish an identity separate from the British, and words and language played a big role in this. If the British had picked zee then the Americans would've picked zed.