A stressful thing about English is when you make a mistake and you’re like “ah sorry I spelled / phrased that wrong, English is hard” and native speakers are like “no actually that’s correct too! both are accepted, don’t worry there’s no solid rule :)” as if that’s not ten times worse from a non-native speaker’s perspective. We are begging for solid rules—well at least French people are, we’re lost without them. Please just let us know which of these two spellings is a felony. Where’s your national academy of little guys with little swords telling you off for forgetting an esoteric grammar rule they made up in the 1650s?
and then there’s us in New Zealand who literally speak English as one of our native language (and a lot of people’s first) except we kind of learn the UK and US terms and spellings simultaneously but we don’t know which ones are from which and I THINK the UK ones are official here (but that the US ones might be official in Australia???) but honestly who gives a fuck we’re just muddling through saying whatever the fuck we want and understanding roughly everything but being able to clarify nothing
