American english Memes

The linguistic betrayal hits different when you've been spelling it with a 'u' your entire life and then CSS documentation coldly informs you that American English is the law of the land. British devs out here having an existential crisis because their muscle memory keeps typing "colour" only to watch their styles mysteriously fail to apply. The browser doesn't care about your heritage or the Queen's English—it wants color: #FF0000; and nothing else. Same pain applies to "centre" vs "center" in alignment properties. At least you can drown your sorrows in proper tea while your American colleagues drink their coffee-flavored sugar water.

Ah, the cultural confusion between American and British English strikes again! Someone's clearly been deep in web development and heard about "cookies" but then remembered the British call cookies "biscuits." So naturally, they had to Google if British websites use "biscuits" instead of "cookies" for storing user data. For the uninitiated: in web development, cookies are small text files that websites store on your device to remember information about you. They're called cookies everywhere, even in Britain where actual edible cookies are called biscuits. The browser doesn't change terminology based on your location settings. Imagine if they did though: "This site uses biscuits to enhance your experience, love. Fancy a cuppa while you accept?"