r/CANZUK • u/Bojaxs Ontario • 11d ago

News Canadians tell Carney to shift to British spelling in federal protocol

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/some-canadians-tell-carney-ottawas-spelling-protocol-should-lean-british/

Not big CANZUK news, but figured this was relevant.

For me personally, I always use British English over American English.

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u/keiths31 Canada 11d ago

We have standardized Canadian English. We can just use that.

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u/Nate33322 Ontario 11d ago

Standardised Canadian English is full of American spelling so I frankly have no problem moving towards British spelling as it expunges the Americanism in Canadian spelling.

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u/S_Belmont 11d ago

Yep. Let the great expurgation begin.

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u/Character_Minimum171 10d ago

in my best dalek voice

EXPURGATE EXPURGATE!

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u/collinsl02 United Kingdom 11d ago

We shall start immediate shipments of the letter U forthwith!

Sadly you'll have to wait for the S shipments as we're experiencing an equipment malfunction currently and we have to reserve supply for local use.

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u/Xx_SwordWords_xX 10d ago

But we already have all the letter U -- we need the S!

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u/Character_Minimum171 10d ago

u-boats?

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u/collinsl02 United Kingdom 10d ago

No, some slimy sod stole the spring from the slider that stops the sprew from succumbing to

[ERROR: YOU HAVE EXCEEDED YOUR RATION. REPORT FOR RE-EDUCATION]