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    1 day ago

    Fun fact: frown is in British English the first image and in American English the second one iirc. The origin is French and means something like cloudy

    Edit: I got it the wrong way around:

    In the UK, a frown is like when you furrow your eyebrows

    According to a lingthusiasm podcast discussing Lynne Murphy’s book “The Prodigal Tongue”

    Edit 2: it’s less clear cut: