You do realize that’s how dictionarys have always worked after all we stopped using little s because the serifs made them look like f so we started using 's instead so technically Mary’s dog is there. Is misspelled
Don’t forget fillet , which for some reason the English insist on pronouncing “fill-it” instead the Americans saying “fi-lay” which is properly inherited from the French.
As an American, we simplified English spellings back in the day. Pray we don’t simplify it further.
But for real, yeah here it’s correct to spell it check. A lot of words that we spell different were adopted into English before we simplified our spellings.
The French invented the bankers cheque so naturally that’s how it’s spelt. That’s the same reason it’s spelt baguette or duvet or hell even cafe.
Although knowing Americans they probably do have an alternate spellings
We usually just keep spelling things incorrectly until the dictionary gives up and adds the misspelling as correct
You just described the evolution of all language. Nothing unique to US America there.
You act like it wasn’t a dictionary author who taught us to misspell everything
You do realize that’s how dictionarys have always worked after all we stopped using little s because the serifs made them look like f so we started using 's instead so technically Mary’s dog is there. Is misspelled
Oh you mean bagget, doovay, and kaphay?
And we line up in a Q
WOOOOAAAHHHH THERE! Not me!
(I couldn’t resist, yes ikwym lol)
Don’t forget fillet , which for some reason the English insist on pronouncing “fill-it” instead the Americans saying “fi-lay” which is properly inherited from the French.
Even more fun if you are an American engineer, where a rounded edge uses the English pronunciation for no good reason.
Mate the french pronounce it like this: https://youtu.be/0FtA2UeZLgY?si=okQ63PbWjtbLlyRv
Yes. That’s my point.
Oh. In that case I don’t get your comment, was it sarcastic? Or did the French use to pronounce it differently at some point?
As an American, we simplified English spellings back in the day. Pray we don’t simplify it further.
But for real, yeah here it’s correct to spell it check. A lot of words that we spell different were adopted into English before we simplified our spellings.
And that’s why in language switchers there should be “English” and “Simplified English”.
*café, otherwise I’m rhyming it with chafe
None of those have alternate spellings in the US
It’s spelt freedom fries, actually.