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minus-square@carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish19•2 years agoWe just stopped pretending we wanted to be French. The spelling is so much better now (ok it’s still shit)
minus-square@gnuplusmatt@reddthat.comlinkfedilink13•2 years agocheque is the british spelling, and how we civilised Commonwealth countries spell it
minus-squareshastaxclinkfedilink11•2 years ago Check is the original spelling in the English language.[4][5] The newer spelling, cheque (from the French), is believed to have come into use around 1828 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheque
minus-square@butwhyishischinabook@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink2•2 years agoRight, like people who are still a century out of being curbstomped like France
minus-square@RickyRigatoni@lemmy.mllinkfedilink1•2 years agoHey in what part of britain does flour rhyme with colour?
minus-square@Smoogs@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink1•2 years agoYou sound like an Australian at McDonald’s correcting everyone on the pronounciation of ‘file(T) o fish’ like they invented it themselves.
We just stopped pretending we wanted to be French. The spelling is so much better now (ok it’s still shit)
cheque is the british spelling, and how we civilised Commonwealth countries spell it
Commonwealth countries:
precisely
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheque
That sounds fantastique.
Right, like people who are still a century out of being curbstomped like France
Hey in what part of britain does flour rhyme with colour?
You sound like an Australian at McDonald’s correcting everyone on the pronounciation of ‘file(T) o fish’ like they invented it themselves.