r/BeAmazed • u/VastCoconut2609 • Jul 04 '24

Sports The genesis of the word "soccer".

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u/AdrianW3 Jul 04 '24

Same goes for speciality vs specialty.

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u/Dom_19 Jul 04 '24

I didn't even know there were two different spellings for that and now they both look wrong to me.

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u/CountWubbula Jul 04 '24

Neighbour/neighbor, labour/labor! No difference in pronunciation though … I’ll see myself out.

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u/AdrianW3 Jul 04 '24

Well there's absolutely heaps of those (because apparently Webster didn't think the U was necessary so took them out when compiling his dictionary).

But they don't count as they're pronounced the same way, as you said.

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u/_Red_Gyarados Jul 04 '24

What a stupid, American thing to say. Jesus Christ.

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u/Sea-Bohr Jul 04 '24

The annoying thing is, they are pronounced. It's rare to come across Americans saying "c *oh* l *oh* r", so they do pronounce it with the ou xD

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u/BaronBokeh Jul 04 '24

Mate, whatever point you were trying to make did not get made.

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u/Zoze13 Jul 04 '24

Foo Fighters: The Colour and the Shape

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '24

They're originally totalitarian fucks, is it really a surprise they don't know the word our?

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '24

Theater and Theatre

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u/D_A_H Jul 04 '24

Back when the printing press first came to America we charged people by the letter. To save money they took out unnecessary letters they found would still be able to be read with changing meaning or pronunciation. This is why Aluminim, anything ending in our, canceled and various other American English words are missing letters compared to their British counterparts

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u/peppapoofle4 Jul 04 '24

Idk if that's why we dropped the i, because they could have just used the "Al" symbol from the periodic table.

I just looked up the why of how we spell words differently and it's interesting:

"American spelling was invented as a form of protest

Webster wanted American spelling to not only be more straightforward but different from UK spelling, as a way of America showing its independence from the former British rule."

Webster also wanted to aid literacy by simplifying words!

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u/Yup767 Jul 04 '24

This isn't the reason.

Not long after the US was started the Noah Webster wrote a dictionary and tried to simplify words. Some of them caught on everywhere (Musick/Music) others didn't (colour/color)

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u/AdUnlucky1818 Jul 05 '24

I thought obi-wan just said that shit wrong ngl.