ComicalGnomes wrote:
I have to say, Mr Chris, Americans do tend to dumb down their words and in the instance that a word is difficult to pronounce based on spelling, they'll just change the word itself to suit their ill-suited tongues.
You've never had some semi-literate British person start whinging about 'regional accents' and how 'popular use of the word defines its meaning, not the dictionary'?
Cor, you're in for a treat / torment, then. It's ace-best. I've had it happen a few times now*. Bonus points if they try and make shit up about 'Pagan spellings', and then throw a massive fit if you ask what the hell that even means
* Believe it or not, but I have been accused of being a pedant, at times.