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Being asked to switch to American English if I want to edit my playlist details (lemmy.world)
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On YouTube, never seen this before but apparently it's a thing

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Americanisms are actually relics of the English spoken and written at the time of mass migration

That was utter claptrap made up by journalists to sell a few papers and has been completely disproved