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[โ€“] mannycalavera@feddit.uk 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Last time I checked Scotland wasn't in the USA ๐Ÿค”. Gulf of Scotland? Maybe that's Trump's next big move ๐Ÿ˜‰.

But I take your point about autocorrect. And perhaps you need to be a little bit more up to date with Scottish politics to understand the education jibe.

At the end of the day it's a silly meme on the internet.

[โ€“] Sentau@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But I take your point about autocorrect.

To be fair, autocorrect will correct it according to the system and keyboard language and I have questions as to why a Scottish person would select English (US) as their system or keyboard language

[โ€“] bufalo1973@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago

Maybe it was the default.

[โ€“] egrets@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is snobby of me to say, but the general level of skill in writing in the UK - as in the US - is shockingly low.

[โ€“] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

Also, a lot of Scots use American spellings sometimes because of internet influence