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Do you use "mould" or "mold"? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by ABasilPlant@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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I've always thought that mold is the fungus, and to mould is to shape. When talking about it with my colleagues yesterday, I was surprised that this isn't common. Most people use one of the two spellings to refer to both.

Doing a quick search on duckduckgo also confirms that:

In my quest to prove them wrong, I was surprised at how wrong I was... until I discovered a few people on the internet who said the same thing:

I'm not looking for what's correct or incorrect anymore, I just find it very fascinating that there are some people who use the words similarly to me, but the vast majority of others who use it in a different way.

So: what's the difference between mould and mold according to you?

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[–] fjordbasa@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

American here, I’ve never used “mould” for any definition, personally- always “mold”