• Skua@kbin.earth
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    2 months ago

    I am in the UK so that would make sense. Going solely off of wikipedia’s page on the romanisation of Arabic, I’d hazard a guess that the UK spelling came via French

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      2 months ago

      I never realised that it’s not from latin, but apparently the words hummus and humus have nothing to do with each other.