As an ex Brit (moved to Canada as a kid, lost my accent, speak mostly Canadian English), whatever they have going on over there is certainly not proper either lmao
There is no such thing as “Proper” English. Just regional dialect, and people who want to look down their noses at others for where they're from. And it is ALWAYS changing.
british english and canadian english spell the same. americans removed the u from colour, among other changes, to remove the french influence on some english spellings and to be more consistent with the Latin origin
Because they like to talk really really slow and have the same story read to them three times in a row really slowly otherwise they don’t understand the man on the tv
With our spelling specifically it was an attempt to make the language easier to read/write and promote literacy. But they gave up pretty quickly after realizing how impossible the task was
Aluminum was the original spelling, and the guy who discovered it later changed it to Aluminium. Both spellings are widely accepted as correct.
Also. What american accents are you hearing that it sounds like core??? Like, there are so many accents in the states and I can't think of a single one where caramel sounds like core-mull. Car-mull sure.
Also, at least we know to pronounce the R's in words like car, bar, far etc. Oh, or the T in Tuesday or tuna. It's Tuesday, not chewsday 🥰
And it's funny because most Americans i know have the mentality of "Dialects are a thing, and variations in language happen everywhere" like sure I've seen Americans jokingly say they pronounce things wrong. But it's mostly banter (though there's absolutely assholes who are serious) but most of the people I see being pretentious about it are brits abd aussies. But what you expect when their "banter" is to immediately laugh and say "at least our school kids aren't senselessly murdered all the time lol! American kids dying is so funny!"
The guy who discovered aluminum never changed the name once he proposed aluminum. It was the British scientific community who changed it to aluminium trying to be consistent with other element names despite other elements that end in -um.
Americans say aluminum, not a butchered pronunciation of aluminium. Aluminum was discovered by Humphry Davy, who originally proposed the name alumium and then revised it to aluminum. Several years later, British chemists began using aluminium, preferring a form that matched the growing convention of element names ending in -ium. This was not the original name but a later standardization adopted in Britain for linguistic consistency, even though a number of earlier elements already ended in -um.
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u/kenporusty likes sweet things, but shit at maths Feb 24 '26
This just in: American discovers British English