What about similar oddities in English?
(This question is inspired by this comic by https://www.exocomics.com/) (I couldn’t find the link to the actual comic)
Edit: it’s to its in the title. Damn autocorrect.

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    I had to look this up.

    And today I learned ALL my brit friends are spelling it wrong. That’s more than two!

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      3 days ago

      Brits aren’t “spelling it wrong” any more than those in the US are. It’s just cultural differences. Do you also claim Germans spell things wrong? Or the Chinese?

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        3 days ago

        Also the language is called English. By default, the English are doing it right and anything else is wrong. Maybe better, the argument can go for decades longer, but if anyones wrong its everyone else.

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          3 days ago

          My point is no one is wrong. Well, you are, but not for the way you spell things.