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>has anyone considered why US English spells color ←—- and yet English –→colour?

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>Because Americans are generally stupid and remove letters from words to make them as easy as possible to spell.

No because until the American Puritans migrated to this country, there was no standard spelling rules for the English language. The Puritans who were regimented in everything they did, laid out conventions for spelling and most of those conventions drifted back over seas to England. Not all did though and so there are some spelling differences. US spelling practices were set in stone by Noah Websters little blue Spelling book from 1783

Source if you are interested : History of English language Episode 5

https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=0snSkxf0Vws

Go to about 12 min in for American dialect info

Go to about 17 min in for Spelling conventions

>>510463

I believe 1828 was a specific edition but the first printing was in 1783. And by the way I agree that it is a fine reference to have handy when reading our founding documents.

"Blue-backed speller"

"Webster thought that Americans should learn from American books, so he began writing the three volume compendium A Grammatical Institute of the English Language. The work consisted of a speller (published in 1783), a grammar (published in 1784), and a reader (published in 1785). His goal was to provide a uniquely American approach to training children. His most important improvement, he claimed, was to rescue "our native tongue" from "the clamour[30] of pedantry" that surrounded English grammar and pronunciation. He complained that the English language had been corrupted by the British aristocracy, which set its own standard for proper spelling and pronunciation"

from wikipedia