• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    This is Webster, named after the guy who butchered English for fun and fame? It’s like dunning-kruger became a linguistic architect.

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      4 months ago

      Wasn’t he trying to simplify it? He’s the reason for most of our Americanized spellings, I’m pretty sure.