TheArcSet Posted June 10, 2020 Author Share Posted June 10, 2020 17 hours ago, TARINunit9 said: "Armour" is a relatively recent spelling; "middle English" used "armor" Remember that Canada is part French, who have "armur" in their etymology, making the entire thing even more confusing But really, I just tune out self-entitled British people after they got really offended when I pointed out "Soccer" is a British word, not an American word. The one time we actually do exactly as you ask, and you still manage to find a way to whine and moan about it. So screw it, we aren't meeting you halfway anymore 🙂 Yep, it's obvious why in the internet age, the vast majority of English has become American and I'm certainly no historian or linguist; I can only guess things like why american millions replaced imperial ones. But silly as it is, spell-check has programmed me a certain way and when I seen all those red underlined words, that it would be ludicrously pretentious to edit, I can't help twitching 😉 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheArcSet Posted June 10, 2020 Author Share Posted June 10, 2020 (edited) 17 hours ago, kyori said: There is no right or wrong, just different with the 2 countries which 1 trying hard to be different from the others. They started this mess last time, and now we shall not be manipulated by such petty differences. I was being ironic and laughing at my instinctive reaction to the auto-spell-checker. Sorry if it came across as dogmatic 😉 . I've edited it a little to male my intention more obvious. Edited June 10, 2020 by TheArcSet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TARINunit9 Posted June 10, 2020 Share Posted June 10, 2020 26 minutes ago, TheArcSet said: 🙂I can only guess things like why american millions replaced imperial ones. Pretty sure that a million has always been 10^6. The number that was in disputed was the billion, which was either 10^9 or 10^12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheArcSet Posted June 11, 2020 Author Share Posted June 11, 2020 On 2020-06-10 at 4:55 PM, TARINunit9 said: Pretty sure that a million has always been 10^6. The number that was in disputed was the billion, which was either 10^9 or 10^12 🙂 and you prove my point. I'll have to leave the actual debates to historians and economists and keep laughing at my uncomfortable spell-checker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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