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Exclusive: Iran deal includes $300 billion fund, more than half of which already committed

10h 56m ago in world from www.reuters.com

Sounds more like protection money.

B-17 'Mizpah' after 88mm flak rounds ripped its nose off over Budapest, July 14 1944. Pilot kept it flying 10 mins so the crew could bail out.

22h 21m ago in historyphotos@piefed.social

Ok, that’ll teach me to try and be amusing without doing research.

No, it wasn’t built by Boeing.

Thames Water moves step closer to nationalisation after government objects to rescue deal

1d 7h ago in unitedkingdom@feddit.uk from www.bbc.co.uk

What’s the most tone-deaf advertisement or marketing campaign you’ve ever seen?

1d 7h ago in asklemmy

And

is it spelled "grey" or "gray"?

1d 19h ago in nostupidquestions

No, it’s evolved unlike American that had to be simplified for the general population.

I’m sorry.

But the Scottish want to claim something English as theirs? When did that start?

I don’t know why you’re getting downvoted either.

To answer your question it’s neither and both. I can appreciate it might seem pedantic from an American point of view, but not from ours. It’s our language, created here and named after us, it doesn’t require the British/European prefix. It is simply English.

American, Canadian and Australian English should have suffixes as simplified variations of the default.