Hacker News Reader

Comment by flerchin | Hacker News Reader

Fun hard hack. I appreciate the spirit of makerism here.

I dunno if Mr Greening frequents Hacker news, but

   s/prize if off/pry it off/g

View on HN

Prize is an accepted alternative spelling of prise, which makes it likely to me that the error here is simply a typo s/if/it/

That's how you know it's not AI generated :) Full of typos.

Fixed now. Looks like “pry” was chosen.

Fun story: "prise" or "prize" are more common in the UK, "pry" is more common in the US.

I do wonder what those from other countries where other spellings are more common think when us Americans come in and correct them, as if our spelling is objectively more correct...

It's not "as if our spelling is objectively more correct" rather the fact that most people in the US probably have no idea that "prise"/"prize" is used in place of "pry" in the UK. I know I sure didn't.

That's a good point. I think my original comment came out harsher than I meant it.

I think it's interesting the sorts of things where we assume we know how something's said or done and then it turns out that's not a universal thing. On the one hand, best not to assume if one can help it. On the other hand, it's impractical to for example look up every word for cultural context before using it/voicing something based on an assumption around it.

Prise is used in the UK. Anyone spelling it Prize would be told to stop Americanising their spelling.

Fair enough!

Also s/seperate/separate/g

Reply on news.ycombinator.com