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  • ChaosMaterialist [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    English had a big French spelling phase, so a bunch of our words have entirely different phonetic sounds vs their spelling. I constantly mess this up. Go ahead, make me spell bourgoise or bureacracy the first time. Nope failed again! Conscious/Conscience are definitely in that category.

    For me I'm not sure if Math or Maths are correct ohnoes

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    • Gucci_Minh [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      You're not a real leftist if you can spell bourgeiouiuiouiise on the first try

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      • Dingus_Khan [he/him, they/them]
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        1 year ago

        First off, amazing username.

        Anyway, a tip to spell bourgeoisie that someone here recommended was to sing it to the tune of the Mickey Mouse song. Which, embarrassingly, is the only way I can spell it.

        B O U ... R G E ... O I S I E! Bourgeoisie! Bourgeoisie! Who steals the surplus value from you and me? B O U R G E O I S I E!

        And then yeah if you need bourgeois just lop off the final I E

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    • temptest [any]
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      1 year ago

      Fun page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_spelling_differences

      North Americans contract 'mathematics' to 'math', most other places shorten it to 'maths'. I don't even know if one is more "correct" or if the entire word 'mathematics' was a mistake. Honestly, the North Americans might be right about this one.