IIUC the problem is that they updated the pronunciation without updating the spelling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift
Eh, this is a classic joke by now. There’s those jokes on the Windows side too (like the ‘delete system32’ one).
The use of ‘railroad’ instead of ‘railway’ would seem to indicate American English
Jerboa, because it just works and doesn’t overcomplicate things.