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by Ylpertnodi 507 days ago
British "should", or American "should"?
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egeozcan 507 days ago
English is not my native language, is there a difference?

ChatGPT Reports some differences: https://chatgpt.com/share/67935d04-a9a8-8001-8df0-b11452e722...

Or perhaps you made a joke and it flew over my head :)

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scubbo 506 days ago
I'm a Brit who's lived in America for ~8.5 years. There are plenty of differences in language usage that I've observed, but this isn't one of them. Curious to know what they meant by this.
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otteromkram 506 days ago
British English tends to have extra (read: nascent) u's in it after o's, but "should" is spelled the same in British and American English.

Example -

British have colourful neighbours.

Americans have colorful neighbors.

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