Re:Why the Global Elite Gave Up on Spelling and Grammar
by tracker1 on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @03:02PM
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The plural is what gets me though crepes (just sounds weird as krehps vs krayps).
Re:Why the Global Elite Gave Up on Spelling and Grammar
by rkomorn on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @03:38PM
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I kinda get it, but you can say step and stehps, not stayps, so why not krehps?
I say it the American way when I speak English anyway because that's just how it is. :)
Re:Why the Global Elite Gave Up on Spelling and Grammar
by jpfromlondon on Thursday March 12, 2026 @06:39AM
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I notice the variance in british and american pronunciation of especially romance + greek words, correct or otherwise and I'm willing to give credit where it's due, I'm also happy to celebrate the differences rather than mock or correct them, I just won't accept the slander!
My favorite is probably crepe, which Americans pronounce like an almost diphthong-y craype (or crape like grape I guess) when crep (like step) would do just fine and be closer to the original.
But as a native French and basically-native American speaker, I also couldn't really care less about it, or about things like Americans pronouncing the t in croissant, or French people being unable to say the.