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Re:Why the Global Elite Gave Up on Spelling and Grammar by gosub100 on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @02:42PM (#47339500)
Is it the same reason as Worcestershire mapped to "wooster" ?
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Re:Why the Global Elite Gave Up on Spelling and Grammar by loloquwowndueo on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @02:50PM (#47339594)
Plymouth -> plee-mooth not ply-mouth
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Re:Why the Global Elite Gave Up on Spelling and Grammar by foobarian on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @03:04PM (#47339778)
Outsider! :-)

More like PLIM-uth. I guess there is no way to write it unambiguously in English

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Re:Why the Global Elite Gave Up on Spelling and Grammar by loloquwowndueo on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @04:56PM (#47341637)
Not outsider - non-native speaker.
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Re:Why the Global Elite Gave Up on Spelling and Grammar by coldtea on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @06:36PM (#47343260)
maybe "Pleemuth"?
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Re:Why the Global Elite Gave Up on Spelling and Grammar by drdec on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @03:05PM (#47339796)
I hope you aren't talking about the one in Massachusetts which is not pronounced either of those ways
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Re:Why the Global Elite Gave Up on Spelling and Grammar by loloquwowndueo on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @04:55PM (#47341626)
No, im talking about this one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_(software)
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Re:Why the Global Elite Gave Up on Spelling and Grammar by drdec on Thursday March 12, 2026 @07:30AM (#47349194)
But the link says it is named after Plymouth Rock which is indeed the Plymouth in Massachusetts
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Re:Why the Global Elite Gave Up on Spelling and Grammar by gib444 on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @03:21PM (#47339983)
Plymouth, England is PLIM-uth
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Re:Why the Global Elite Gave Up on Spelling and Grammar by avadodin on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @06:33PM (#47343215)
PLI-muth?
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Re:Why the Global Elite Gave Up on Spelling and Grammar by gib444 on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @10:14PM (#47345502)
Haha thanks, typo
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Re:Why the Global Elite Gave Up on Spelling and Grammar by coldtea on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @06:35PM (#47343245)
Well, I wouldn't piss on the British for that, when Louisville is pronounced "LOO-vul" and not "Lou-iss-ville".

And don't get me started on Des Moines, Boise, La Jolla (at least that has an excuse), Spokane, Versailles, Tucson, Willamette, ...

And the worst of all: Arkansas.

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