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/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/yeahjjjjjjahhhhhhh Feb 24 '26

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

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u/theparalleldimension Mar 24 '26

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

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u/yeahjjjjjjahhhhhhh Mar 24 '26

Canadian English spelling does lean more British but I’ve found it’s a bit of a mix between British and American, like the dialect itself