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grumpy_cat@thelemmy.club to History Memes@piefed.socialEnglish · 3 months ago

It's honestly kind of wild how unpopular Roosevelt's ideas for English spelling reform were.

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It's honestly kind of wild how unpopular Roosevelt's ideas for English spelling reform were.

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    > no context

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    • call_me_xale@lemmy.zip
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      Looks like it’s referring to this

      Roosevelt tried to force the federal government to adopt the system, sending an order to the Public Printer to use the system in all public federal documents. The order was obeyed; among the many documents printed using the system was the President’s special message regarding the Panama Canal.

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    That led me down a rabbit hole. Not a deep one though.

    Edit: Or should I say “tho”

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      Which one is the new one?

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        “Tho” is. I absolutely lost it when I saw “thoro”.

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          Might as well say ðo and þoro lol

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    In Australia it gave us the Labor party rather than the Labour Party… Even though we use British spellings for everything else.

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    Every effort to fix English just adds more exceptions. Meanwhile everything written beforehand, or elsewhere, still uses the old way, so you often need to learn both versions.

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      Þæt wæs langsum earfoþness.

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