"Editor at Large" makes it sounds like he is on the run from the law, traveling by night from town to town, righting grammatical wrongs, asking for nothing in return apart from some new appreciation of the language.

The changing of 's' to 'z' is a bit annoying. Mainly due to Microsoft among others passing English (English) and English (Australian) off as being English (US) in their software's due to not including proper English for the respective language settings.

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It actually makes spell checkers much less useful when you have to get used to ignoring them half the time... I find myself missing real typos as a result.

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I do love me some lexical factoids. Upvote

Noah Webster, making YouTube comments before electricity.

Tunging wimmen in the theatre?? Ahh civilization!

Personally (American, btw), I find a lot of things that technically may be the same phonetically, I nonetheless pronounce slightly differently depending on the spelling. For instance, the 'f' sound in, say, philanthropic, I pronounce slightly differently. It's not something I could put into writing really, but when spelled with a "ph" I hold that sound slightly longer, it's a little breathier, and don't press my teeth against my lip so much or so abruptly, as I would were it spelled with an 'f.' A linguist would probably have a better vocabulary to describe this, but it's also the same for 'c' when it makes an 's' sound. There are many other examples as well. Another, off the top of my head is "can't." Were it spelled with an 'k', the 'a' sound would be more abrupt than when I pronounce it's proper spelling. "Ake" I would pronounce slightly differencly from "ache". It's subtle, but the 'ch' sound does make it in there.

Maybe this is just me, and all things being equal, I would prefer simplified spellings, but I nevertheless pronounce things with a subtle difference depending on how they're spelled.

I'd pronounce that "AH-kay", probably from Asian influences.

This is all giving me a hedaik.

Favorite Britism: Lieutenant pronounced, "Luftenant."

James Mason does it best....

Noah Webster - deluded moron.

Actually its more like "Leftenant"