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shiroiushi 59 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: All Kindles can now be jailbroken

Obviously, you haven't visited any colonial American sites. It used to be the normal spelling.

t-3 59 days ago [–]

I've also seen the spelling used in old westerns, which I just so happened to be reading in jail.

wink 59 days ago | [–]

Non-native speaker here and I learned the word gaol from some fantasy literature only a couple years back.

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