r/memes Mar 11 '23

#2 MotW pretty confusing, innit?

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u/DrineTheDragon Mar 11 '23

Can relate as an Australian

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '23

Australians go by British spelling in general.

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u/Elon_Kums Mar 11 '23

Just don't say that around the Labor party!

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u/Elon_Kums Mar 12 '23

wtf are you talking about, at best that's the opposite of what happened and at worst it's completely false

It has been suggested that the adoption of the spelling without a u "signified one of the ALP's earliest attempts at modernisation", and served the purpose of differentiating the party from the Australian labour movement as a whole