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submitted 10 hours ago by Cevilia to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

It's a terrible disorganised mess, it's inconsistent, it makes very little objective sense, but for some reason we seem to have settled on it as the default.

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[-] frezik 1 points 8 hours ago

Briton can't even decide on whether to pronounce all the R's or not.

[-] Codpiece@feddit.uk 2 points 8 hours ago

Such as? We can pronounce “mirror” perfectly well.

[-] frezik 3 points 8 hours ago
[-] Codpiece@feddit.uk 2 points 7 hours ago
[-] frezik 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

What of it?

All I'm saying is that British English is just as much as a mess as everywhere else. In fact, a lot of the mess is concentrated on those little islands.

[-] Codpiece@feddit.uk 1 points 6 hours ago

In fact, a lot of the mess is concentrated on those little islands.

How very dare you be so right.

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