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Seems to have deliberately taken the opposite path of anything British:
It kinda makes me laugh to think about it as just anti-British π€£
Does up=off for British light switches? That's unhinged
Also, never gonna apologize for omitting pointless, silent letters from words. If the English wanted to maintain control of their language, they shouldn't have colonized half the world.
It's sensible. It stops the electrons from falling out!