Anonymous
Post 06/19/2025 11:26     Subject: Current spelling practices
The better question is when (and why) did Americans start using the British spelling for certain words?

In the US, it should be gray—not grey.

Anonymous
Post 06/19/2025 06:27     Subject: Current spelling practices
Nobody tell OP about Flavor Flav.
Anonymous
Post 06/19/2025 06:12     Subject: Current spelling practices
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I’m with you OP. I think it’s because they stopped teaching phonics. Kids don’t know what the letters mean.


OP is literally complaining that the spelling is too phonetic.


I don't think that word means what you think it means.
Anonymous
Post 06/19/2025 01:17     Subject: Current spelling practices
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Fridge and fave ARE the phonetic spellings to maintain the same pronunciation of those syllables.


Exactly. And please write "vacay" instead of "vaca." Again, phonetics.



Yikes. I never saw this one. I would have no idea what “vaca” means.


It means cow in Spanish 🐄
Anonymous
Post 06/18/2025 22:04     Subject: Current spelling practices
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Fridge and fave ARE the phonetic spellings to maintain the same pronunciation of those syllables.


Exactly. And please write "vacay" instead of "vaca." Again, phonetics.



Yikes. I never saw this one. I would have no idea what “vaca” means.
Anonymous
Post 06/18/2025 20:09     Subject: Current spelling practices
Anonymous wrote:Fridge and fave ARE the phonetic spellings to maintain the same pronunciation of those syllables.


Exactly. And please write "vacay" instead of "vaca." Again, phonetics.
Anonymous
Post 06/18/2025 20:04     Subject: Current spelling practices
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Frig has another meaning lol


At least two!


Wow, just searched that. I actually learned something on DCUM today! Hope it's not the end of the world!
Anonymous
Post 06/18/2025 05:48     Subject: Current spelling practices
When did “What’s new?” become “I see you’re now a woman”?
Anonymous
Post 06/14/2025 18:29     Subject: Current spelling practices
What also bugs me is when people put the emphasis on the wrong vowel to draw out the word, like

"Cuteeee" or "Aweee."

It's annoying.
Anonymous
Post 06/14/2025 17:38     Subject: Current spelling practices
sike!
Anonymous
Post 06/14/2025 16:52     Subject: Re:Current spelling practices
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It shouldn't be fave. It's an abbreviation of favorite so just fav.
Frig is just dropping 2 letters.


Using your reasoning, why isn’t duplicate shortened to “dup”?


It is!

Dupe is a whole other word.

Are you really so stupid that you don't get that dupe is derived from duplicate?
Anonymous
Post 06/14/2025 16:51     Subject: Current spelling practices
Anonymous wrote:When did “fave” become “fav”? They shouldn’t be pronounced the same way.

When did “fridge” become “frig”? Ditto.


When teenagers started spelling them that way, but I've never seen "frig" before, so it can't be that common. I think fav is stupid, but most teens are stupid, so...
Anonymous
Post 06/14/2025 16:41     Subject: Current spelling practices
Don't none of you whippersnappers call it an ice box no more?