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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

The successor to tin foil is aluminum foil. "Aluminum" is called "aluminium" in English-speaking countries outside the US.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Oh there we go, okay that explains it.

Yeah you guys on the other side of the pond like using extra letters in your words like 'colour'. :p

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Colour is closer to you than you think (look up)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Um, by "look up", if you mean my reply, I was spelling it how it's spelled over in Europe, not America.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I mean up as in on a map. Canada, north of the US, uses colour

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I mean up as in on a map.

Ah, so you were speaking geographically, and not Lemmyically.