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adastra22 • last Tuesday at 9:14 PM • 5 replies • view on HN

It tends to be standardized within a single country.

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merelysounds • last Tuesday at 9:42 PM

Standardizations can be notoriously inconsistent[1], disregarded[2] or evolve fast[3].

There’s a surprising amount of interesting articles on wikipedia about that.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ough_(orthography)#Spelling_re...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_dialect

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensational_spelling

qingcharles • last Tuesday at 9:36 PM

Whoosh :)

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jagged-chisel • yesterday at 1:32 AM

And standardised within an empire.

aidenn0 • yesterday at 12:05 AM

Is it hiccough or hiccup in the US?