Asklemmy

48166 readers

718 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
!lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 6 years ago

MODERATORS

110

What hills are you dying on? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 18 hours ago by SpaceFox@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

166 comments fedilink hide all child comments

. The race of a voice actor doesn't matter

. It is possible to wear yoga pants because there comfy

. You don't need to shower everyday

. It is possible to crossdress/be gender non-conforming without being trans

. Monty Python is very overrated

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 1 points 7 hours ago

It's not new vs. old. Like many loanwords (hummus, shwarma) there was never one standard English spelling, but multiple phonetic transliterations.

It's just that one looks like an adult wrote it and one looks like a child did. It happens that Heinz, when their "57" brand became popular, used the latter spelling, and that spelling became popular along with it. Other brands used different spelling.