• Squirrel@thelemmy.club
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    2 months ago

    I think spellings and punctuation are still valid. Mostly. Ignore variations between English and Americanese.

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        2 months ago

        The spelling differences are actually mostly due to Noah Webster standardising what he saw as pure Anglo-Saxon English without corruption by French princelings.

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        2 months ago

        England and all its former colonies (except the American ones) agree on the language, and the only odd one out - the United States feels it is unique among former colonies and its parent nation as the sole owner of the most correct version of English.

        Seems likely /s