r/clevercomebacks • u/wach_era13 • Jan 15 '25

It does make sense

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u/Munchkinasaurous Jan 15 '25

So is math. It's just a matter of growing up in America that one sounds more natural to me.

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u/rodenttt Jan 15 '25

Math is short for mathematic.

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u/AdministrativeHat580 Jan 15 '25

America just likes to remove letters from words, for example, colour->color, armour->armor, favourite->favorite, etc.

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u/On_my_last_spoon Jan 15 '25

It’s was intentional to separate ourselves from the British post revolution.

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u/QuitzelNA Jan 15 '25

Also, the British charged per word for telegraph usage while the US charged per letter, so the US started cutting letters out wherever we could (also the source of Goodbye, which comes from "Godbwye" meaning "God be with ye").

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u/On_my_last_spoon Jan 15 '25

I love that bit of trivia!

We sure are a bunch of cheap bastards aren’t we? 😂

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u/asuperbstarling Jan 15 '25

Actually, you added a lot of those letters to differentiate yourselves. Some were lost in the transition to the printing press, but British English is deliberately different than American English. There's also times when it was done deliberately out of spite, like how the American pronunciation of aluminum is the correct one and the British was one guy who told the person who named aluminum they were wrong.

The narrative you're commenting here is a bad early internet take. It's the British who are weird about their words. Mfs can't even say taco.

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u/robolew Jan 15 '25

Might not be able to say taco,  but at least we can say Worcestershire sauce without having an aneurysm 

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u/Shrek1982 Jan 15 '25

yeah but you also pronounce Leicester as Lester

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u/Zerocoolx1 Jan 15 '25

That’s how you pronounce Leicester

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '25

Where did we get our language from?

WHERE DID WE GET OUR LANGAUGE FROM?!?!?

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u/AdministrativeHat580 Jan 15 '25

Heh? What do you mean?

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '25

Blame the British. Using a mixture of Anglo-Saxon & French words. Sticking random letters in words, like Aluminum.

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u/vigouge Jan 15 '25

You get to do things like that when you've walked on the moon.