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What a complication, guys, why can't you say "Moule" and "Moisissure" like everyone else...
It's very simple in French: "Moule" is a tool for molding balls and "Moule" is a bivalve mollusk (mussel)...

Why get lost in foreign languages with double-meaning words when French is so simple and easy? 🥺🥺

Well! I guess I won't be ordering any molds/moulds from France. Fifty Fifty chance I end with a clam shell. 😀
 
Being a bit of a wordsmith, I have long been unsure what the correct spelling is for the tool we use to cast round balls. Is it ''mould" or "mold"? To my way of thinking, "mold" is the fungus stuff that grows in moist area and "mould" is the casting tool. So, I looked it up. Surprise! o_O Do yer own thang. Both are correct and interchangeable for the casting tool. "Mold" is a more American usage and "mould" is more British but either is acceptable. Potato/potaato?
Mold is that stuff in your shower, too! But the "U" does sound quite English! Good that you looked it up; kudos!
 
Being a bit of a wordsmith, I have long been unsure what the correct spelling is for the tool we use to cast round balls. Is it ''mould" or "mold"? To my way of thinking, "mold" is the fungus stuff that grows in moist area and "mould" is the casting tool. So, I looked it up. Surprise! o_O Do yer own thang. Both are correct and interchangeable for the casting tool. "Mold" is a more American usage and "mould" is more British but either is acceptable. Potato/potaato?

British Commonwealth and Europeans tend to use the vowel combination “ ou “ in some words that we spell with the simpler “ o “.
 
we speak American/ your state. we fought a war not to speak english, my 2$
Pity that some people can't get past 1776.
One thing to remember about your Constitution (NOT A CRITICISM!!!) is that it was written by what we in the UK would have called "Upper Class" people, landed gentry with estates maintained by "peasants" and slaves. Hence the structure of the Constitution to protect the status quo -- - again this is a comment, NOT A CRITICISM. This class system still exists to some extent in the UK.

English spellings varied until the development of dictionaries and newspapers.
As far as "American" spelling, of course the changes really started when Webster's Dictionary was published in 1828, but the major changes were a result of "rationalisation" by a later President -- TDR in 1906 with his Executive Order mandating "reformed spelling". There is a good explanation on the History Channel.

Can we all not agree that there are bound to be differences of opinion on SO many matters, but that little is accomplished by focus on chipped shoulders ?
 
No wonder I can't ever seem to find any "would mold handals"
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