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Re:Palindrome Day 20200202 by Lio on Sunday February 02, 2020 @03:26AM (#22215868)
I don’t know, I always imagined that you said “4th of July” because up to that point you were Brits and that’s how we say it.

...and then the very next day, without adult supervision, you started saying your dates weirdly and dropping the “u”s out of words, stuff like that.*

* DISCLAIMER: May not be an accurate representation of history. :P

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Re:Palindrome Day 20200202 by thaumasiotes on Sunday February 02, 2020 @05:14AM (#22216211)
It's more accurate than it might sound. If I recall correctly, the American spelling reforms were largely a one-man top-down effort driven by the ideological goal of being more separate from Britain.
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Re:Palindrome Day 20200202 by justinclift on Sunday February 02, 2020 @06:32AM (#22216475)
It's commonly referred to as "Simplified English" for good reason. ;)
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Re:Palindrome Day 20200202 by dcuthbertson on Sunday February 02, 2020 @11:13AM (#22217592)
> I always imagined that you said “4th of July” because up to that point you were Brits

True, but nowadays we say "Independence Day" :-)

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Re:Palindrome Day 20200202 by iso947 on Monday February 03, 2020 @09:14AM (#22224249)
Macy’s call it 4th of July

https://www.macys.com/shop/4th-of-july-sale

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