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[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago

Some English used in the US was deprecated on main, but it still was in use in the fork.

American English used a number of things that fell out of fashion in GB/UK, but the US kept them. It also doesn't help that some non-major GB dialects were over-represented in some early settlements