Ignominious
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Except they spell it DefenSe!They use the same spelling we did until Samuel Johnson thought we should latinise English and changed spellings in his dictionary.
However DEEEEE-FENCE pisses me off as a pronunciation.
US English was codified by Noah Webster's dictionary in 1828. Ironically, his dictionary was closer to the style of English used in England at the time
Noah Webster - Wikipedia
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