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There's a lot of shame being an American these days..
But, like, at least we can spell.
'you speak English because its the only language you speak, I speak English because it's the only language you speak. we are not the same.'-some random guy some time ago
Color is not a valid spelling
If you speak English everything you spell is objectively wrong to its phonetically correct counterparts you are just following culture rather than being 'correct'
If you wish to be correct develop a method of writing that uses English's fuck load of hidden vowels and consonants to have a 60 letter long alphabet which is also phonetically correct!
Americans are actually a bit closer than the rest of us, e.g. erbs is the original pronounciation of herbs with the H being picked up in the UK initially by the upper classes and eventually everyone else, literally just because it sounded more grandiose, though the root latin word does include an h. (the presence of an H in english has been intermittent)
Aluminum is also closer to the intended pronounciation at least by the guy who came up with the first decent process for refining it.
Spelling is a shitty matrix to judge intelligence. It's just copy and paste to convey thought. To me the thoughts that are supported are more beneficial to the species.
Yeh but word origins are fascinating anyway.