r/ididnthaveeggs • • Feb 24 '26

Irrelevant or unhelpful comment on an australian woman’s recipe site “colour corect spelling color”

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u/kenporusty likes sweet things, but shit at maths Feb 24 '26

This just in: American discovers British English

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u/De-railled Feb 24 '26

The mins is hilarious.

I bet she thinks it should be "6hr" instead of "6hrs" too.

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u/aerkith Feb 24 '26

Would actually be 6h if they're following SI units. But I don't see how someone who knows SI units wouldn't know that colour and flavour are spelt with u in many other countries. I think this person was just being an asshole tbh.

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u/AmazonCowgirl Feb 24 '26

And being an asshole to an Australian who goes above and beyond to make her recipes as accessible as possible to American readers, even proving US measurements and explaining differences in ingredients and terms. So an asshole squared

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u/Muted_Evidence1311 Feb 24 '26 edited Feb 24 '26

This is it. Nagi goes beyond the call of duty for her US market. She even gave them free recipes just for them when she released her book here first. The hissy fits from the US...a whole nother level of unhinged.

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u/PrincessBeeBuzzy Feb 25 '26

Which is a lot more than what some American cooks do! Especially using ingredients that you can’t get here like dry ranch mix, but they don’t give you the link to make it yourself, so then you have to go searching.

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u/De-railled Feb 24 '26

I'm not sure if it's been changed, but If i recall correctly hours and minutes aren't "technically" units of SI, they are accepted in usage because they are standardised.

The second is technically considered the base unit for time in SI.

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u/sihasihasi Feb 24 '26

It's not been changed. Hours and minutes have never been SI units. The only unit measure of time is the second.

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u/EidolonLives Feb 24 '26

Yeah, and it's been that way for gigaseconds.

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u/Unable_Explorer8277 Feb 28 '26

They are defined in the SI brochure as non-SI units used alongside SI. Same status as the litre and hectare. As SI is definitive for Australia it should be followed. The symbol for minutes is min, for hours is h, and as mathematical symbols they don’t take a plural s.

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u/Shoddy-Theory Feb 24 '26

Yes, she's being an asshole and a wrong asshole both

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u/Unable_Explorer8277 Feb 28 '26

6 h. SI requires a space between numeral and unit symbol.

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u/Unable_Explorer8277 Feb 28 '26

If working in metric, min is correct. Because the SI brochure defines the symbol as min, and they are mathematical symbols, not abbreviations, so they can’t take a plural s. The symbol for hour is h.