LazaroFilm@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agoThis page in my kid’s book from school to learn how to read.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square123fedilinkarrow-up1701arrow-down119
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minus-squareBagel5941@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·10 months agoTIL that aeroplane is commonwealth english.
minus-squareMr_Blott@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20arrow-down3·10 months agoNo, “airplane” is simplified English, for simpletons “Aeroplane” is fancypants English
minus-squarethecrotch@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down4·10 months agoAmericans invented it, Americans get to name it
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·10 months agoOr did they? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claims_to_the_first_powered_flight
minus-squaredylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down7·10 months agoBrought to you by the people who spell jail as gaol
minus-squareTheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·edit-210 months ago…no. Non-US English speakers absolutely do not say gaol instead of jail lmao and haven’t for a loooooong time.
minus-squareMr_Blott@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·10 months agoHow do you know we’re not secretly saying “gaol” but you’re hearing it as “jail”?
minus-squareHerbal Gamer@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·10 months agodownvotes of those that don’t know that’s actually a word.
TIL that aeroplane is commonwealth english.
No, “airplane” is simplified English, for simpletons
“Aeroplane” is fancypants English
Americans invented it, Americans get to name it
Or did they?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claims_to_the_first_powered_flight
Brought to you by the people who spell jail as gaol
…no. Non-US English speakers absolutely do not say gaol instead of jail lmao and haven’t for a loooooong time.
How do you know we’re not secretly saying “gaol” but you’re hearing it as “jail”?
downvotes of those that don’t know that’s actually a word.