• vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
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      Pretty sure you guys were effected by the reromanticized effect, that broadly speaking started around the 1850s or so in England though wasn’t fully finalized until about the 1970s or so. Solder was just one of the more unified examples of a word being effected due to it being rarely used outside of blacksmiths up until the industrial revolution and it being a relatively easy thing to assume the l was pronounced by the developing metal working tradesmen unless the region had the soder or sodder spellings instead of with the traditional spelling.

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        3 hours ago

        Who cares? The point is that the spelling is better for us now. Dialects exist. Universalising English is stupid.

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          Oh most certainly but also I’m going to take every moment to shit on anything and everything the English aristocracy has ever done if it’s even the least bit stupid. I will shed the blood of Saxon men.

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            8 minutes ago

            I reckon there are probably more valuable way to spend your energy than on policing spelling.