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Lulwafahd t1_jc0tzfl wrote

I'm just commenting about the spelling because of North Americans making dyke jokes whenever this spelling is encountered by them online:

In American and Canadian English, dike is the preferred spelling of the noun referring to (1) an embankment used to prevent floods, and (2) a low wall dividing lands. Dyke is the preferred spelling in all other main varieties of English.

Dyke is also a (historically [and often] derogatory) slang word referring to a lesbian. While this sense of dyke has been reappropriated and made positive by some, it is still generally considered offensive and should be shunned outside very specific contexts... which is another reason Americans eschew the spelling for the flood embankment protection method.

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mama--mia t1_jc14gke wrote

Mate there are so far a total of zero comments thinking that the Kazakhs built a 12km long lesbian in the Aral sea to preserve it, and a total of 117 words that you've spent quoting the dictionary, quit huffing your own farts.

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sabyrly t1_jcusfdp wrote

Actually I was greatly bamboozled by this horrendous error, thanks to u/Lulwafahd who clarified and pointed at elephant in the room

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leadchipmunk t1_jc18und wrote

American here, I have never seen it spelled with an "i", only with the "y".

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