LazaroFilm@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoThis page in my kid’s book from school to learn how to read.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square113fedilinkarrow-up1635arrow-down119
arrow-up1616arrow-down1imageThis page in my kid’s book from school to learn how to read.lemmy.worldLazaroFilm@lemmy.world to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square113fedilink
minus-squaredylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down7·11 months agoBrought to you by the people who spell jail as gaol
minus-squareTheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-211 months ago…no. Non-US English speakers absolutely do not say gaol instead of jail lmao and haven’t for a loooooong time.
minus-squareHerbal Gamer@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·11 months agodownvotes of those that don’t know that’s actually a word.
minus-squareTheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down3·11 months agoIt’s an archaic word that pretty much fell out of usage in the 1800s. People don’t say it. It’s a word in very much the same way forsooth or something is. That’s why I downvoted.
minus-squareHerbal Gamer@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·11 months agoRecently saw Gaolor being played on Cats does Countdown so I think it counts.
Brought to you by the people who spell jail as gaol
…no. Non-US English speakers absolutely do not say gaol instead of jail lmao and haven’t for a loooooong time.
downvotes of those that don’t know that’s actually a word.
It’s an archaic word that pretty much fell out of usage in the 1800s. People don’t say it. It’s a word in very much the same way forsooth or something is.
That’s why I downvoted.
Recently saw Gaolor being played on Cats does Countdown so I think it counts.