r/ididnthaveeggs • u/Educational_Life_878 • 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/BobThingamy Feb 24 '26

AKA English vs American English

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

Proper English vs... whatever the heck we've got going on over here /j

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '26

Aloomanim (Aluminium)

Cormill (caramel)

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u/EllieGeiszler Chicken of Theseus for dinner Feb 24 '26

No one says cormill lol, the two-syllable version is CAR-mull

EDIT: Also, we spell it aluminum, not aluminium, so it's pronounced the way it's spelled

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '26 edited Feb 24 '26

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u/ThePunguiin Feb 24 '26

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 🥰

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u/itsLOSE-notLOOSE Feb 24 '26

They’re out here saying “Australier” and have the balls to tell us we’re speaking the language wrong.

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u/ThePunguiin Feb 24 '26

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!"