• Zagorath@aussie.zone
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    11 months ago

    In most cases, the American spelling of English words compared to the rest-of-the-world spelling is pretty much a wash. A matter of personal preference.

    But “metre” is a hill I will die on. “Metre” and “meter” mean different things, and by spelling them both “meter”, as the Americans do, you’re just making communication worse.

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        11 months ago

        In America “gas” is short for gasoline, which is petrol.

        It’s still shit because our lazy asses do still call both types “gas”, but there is a distinction.