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A place to post memes & images that won't absolutely obliterate your mental health! Memes must not stray into hopelessness and be generally positive or neutral.

I made this with my kid in mind, so that they can have a good, safe place to look at memes, just made to make folks laugh and smile!

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I'm continental (lemmy.world)

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[–] Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

that non-native speakers commonly over-pronounce when goofing around in a similar way.

Aluminum? Or is that more of a 'regional differences' thang?

[–] dmention7@midwest.social 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If I were a Brit I would definitely make it a point to bust out my worst American accent and call it Alumin(no i)um whenever possible.

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

The spelling and pronunciation that brits hate was made by a brit. guy couldn't seem to remember what he named the metal and kept calling it slightly different things while his peers wanted it to have the same word ending as other elements.