nave@lemmy.ca to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 14 天前american culturelemmy.caexternal-linkmessage-square196fedilinkarrow-up1898arrow-down116
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minus-squareByteOnBikes@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·13 天前We don’t like to brag about it but we fought the Brits in the War of 1812, one of the things we took from England was Greek literature. In turn, we Americans lost the definition of jams vs jelly and the superior spelling of “colour”.
minus-squareZeffSyde@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·13 天前I rebel against this fact by being American and using the spelling of “Grey” for the color, autocorrect be damned.
We don’t like to brag about it but we fought the Brits in the War of 1812, one of the things we took from England was Greek literature. In turn, we Americans lost the definition of jams vs jelly and the superior spelling of “colour”.
I rebel against this fact by being American and using the spelling of “Grey” for the color, autocorrect be damned.