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The community dedicated to boycotting the US until they stop fascism, restore full democracy and start following international law.
Americans have a moral obligation to resist Donald Trump and project 2025 at every turn.
America is a flawed democracy currently being ruled by oligarchs. Stop the backslide! Dont let America become the next Hungary.
America needs to challenge the court rulings of citizens united v. fec and shelby county v. holder, protect the media, implement independent district drawing, and the single transferable vote so they don't end up having people stay home in life-changing elections because they cannot vote for their favourite candidate.
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There's no Canadian English either. American English is the only language I see on this bag.
Honestly, that’s how 99% of people in Canada spell in English anyway.
No, it’s not.
You put random “u” in armor and color? Nonsense.
It's not random. Source am American that reads a lot.
Noah Webster, in his efforts to standardize American English, simplified spellings by removing the "u" in words like "colour," "honour," and "favour".
I spell most words the British way. But it's gray, not grey.
It's grey never even heard of the gray spelling.
"Gray" is the more common spelling in the US, "grey" is the more common spelling in the UK (and apparently Canada).
and australia/new zealand
In Canada, there’s a mixture of American spelling and Canadian spelling. I personally choose not to use the U because it looks ridiculous.
Wait you hear how us Canadians pronounce Lieutenant. I am almost 70. I was taught in school (Canadian) that is how you spell colour armour and a whole lot more. So easily forgotten things are after a couple/ of decades with our present and eroding school systems.
Yes?
Where did you get this statistic? Sounds like bullshit to me. I have been making it a point to spell it with the Us all my life.
72% of statistics are just made up
But only 50% of the time.
Sounds like my uncle's roulette strategy, that always works, 50% of the time.
Slightly less than 50% of the time. The house owns a few of those slots...
ZDoom Launcher??
Bingo!
Most spell the American way auto correct for decades has been saying we are wrong and people just adapt. Also people don't say leftsnent they usually say lootenant.
I set my language to Canadian English. It autocorrects the other way.
Only if they have their localization set to US.
Not me. I am so (insert whatever here) that I will diligently wipe that american auto correct crap 2-3 or more to ensure my Canuckness. I am a legend in my own mind.