• Lumidaub@feddit.org
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    1 day ago

    Might’ve evolved like that eventually if we hadn’t stopped writing and type-setting by hand instead of using magical misspelling detection machines with strict spelling rules.

    Midweek is superior anyway.

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      22 hours ago

      I mean, spellings of words change all the time. Hell, when I was in school you’d lose points on papers for spelling “doughnut” as “donut”, but now that shorter version is concidered a correct spelling and is no longer tagged by spell check.

      We as a society can literally will this spelling to be concidered correct through shear usage.

          • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works
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            13 hours ago

            Well I thought the joke I assumed you were making was a good fit for your point, which I agree with btw. Spellcheck wouldn’t catch “shear” anyway, that’s the cutting one.

            The see-through one has ee.

            Why “sheer” is also the one you meant, meaning utter or complete, I don’t know.

            English.