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We just stopped pretending we wanted to be French. The spelling is so much better now (ok it's still shit)
cheque is the british spelling, and how we civilised Commonwealth countries spell it
Commonwealth countries:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheque
That sounds fantastique.
"s" makes the sound in "snake". Use a "z" for the sound in "zebra" like a normal person :P
since when does english work with how things sound and not just how they're spelt because that's the rule? There's literally endless hours of content on youtube covering the idiosyncrasies of the language
Sorry, I don't subscribe to the "all-or-nothing" mentality. A little bit of sanity in spelling is better than no sanity in spelling :P
Right, like people who are still a century out of being curbstomped like France
You sound like an Australian at McDonald’s correcting everyone on the pronounciation of ‘file(T) o fish’ like they invented it themselves.
Hey in what part of britain does flour rhyme with colour?