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	“	An atlantic crossing is long, to pass the time my family decided to ruin the english language on the mayflower.	„
	—Ouchies, on being an American.

A language invented purely by accident during world World War II when a shipment of the letter "u"'s from Britain to America was bombarded by Nazi missiles, hence the lack of the letter "u" in American words, such as: color. Because of the event, many Americans were enlightened so they started replacing "s"s with "z"s ("customise" -> customize). The change to "z" actually makes sense, though, since "s" and "z" are different sounds. The language is now for the most part replaced by Esperanto.

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+{{quote|An atlantic crossing is long, to pass the time my family decided to ruin the english language on the mayflower.|Ouchies|on being an [[American]].}}
 A language invented purely by accident during world [[World War II]] when a shipment of the letter "u"'s from Britain to America was bombarded by Nazi missiles, hence the lack of the letter "u" in American words, such as: color. Because of the event, many Americans were enlightened so they started replacing "s"s with "z"s ("customise" -> customize). The change to "z" actually makes sense, though, since "s" and "z" are different sounds. The language is now for the most part replaced by [[shit nobody cares about|Esperanto]].

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