Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Standardizing English spellings (catalog vs catalogue edition): 🇺🇸 fog 🇬🇧 fogue 🇺🇸 frog 🇬🇧 frogue 🇺🇸 hedgehog 🇬🇧 hedgehogue 🇺🇸 morg 🇬🇧 morgue 🇺🇸 tong 🇬🇧 tongue 🇺🇸 vog 🇬🇧 vogue 🇺🇸 fug 🇬🇧 fugue 🇺🇸 rog 🇬🇧 rogue 🇺🇸 vag 🇬🇧 vague 910618
B. Prendergast @renderg.host · 30/04/2025You mean to tell me I've been needlessly taking offense when folks call me Fugly!? 000
Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 30/04/2025You might expect 🇺🇸 fatig/ 🇬🇧 fatigue, but the American spelling is actually "tiredness" 1130
Patrick M. Hausen @sweordbora.hausen.com · 04/12/2025Patrick M. Hausen@sweordbora.hausen.comKermit, or Mr. Le Frogue. 000
bcgreenwitch.bsky.social @bcgreenwitch.bsky.social · 30/04/2025You had me until morgue, then everything thereafter is pronounced differently left and right (at least in my dialect/s) 🤨🙃 Gotta love English! 110
Kitty WH 🚺 @kittywashere.bsky.social · 30/04/2025I’ve never seen half these spellings before this post in either UK or US writing. 😂 100
Dana @danyq.bsky.social · 30/04/2025i know this is a joke but it made me realize that the "-ue" ending denotes a hard "g" and a hard vowel, rog would be "rahg" and roge would be "rohj" 200