• Rentlar@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    It’s the one Canadian spelling that somehow makes me irrationally angrier than all the rest when it’s done wrong.

    Centre/center, grey/gray, licence/license, defence/defense, i couldn’t give a hoot…

    But I will defend to the end that check is when you’re looking for things, and cheque is anything to do with money. Neighbour/neighbor is a distant second place.

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      2 months ago

      I was raised to see center and centre as:

      Centre = a place Center = middle

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        2 months ago

        If they are verbally pronounced the same way, then one of the spellings must be wrong. French spelling only maquese senco whenn pronouncedu whith thath stylè off pronunciationne.