why is americas color not canadas colour?
ok in american english we spell color as canadians spell it colour.
now i know this is do to an a man who way back decided american literature didnt need so many extra letters in it and erased them. can anyone please tell me his name and background and maybe name off some other words he edited.
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Noah Webster. He wanted to make a clean break with England.
"When Noah was 43, he started writing the first American dictionary. He did this because Americans in different
parts of the country spelled, pronounced and used words differently. He thought that all Americans should speak
the same way. He also thought that Americans should not speak and spell just like the English.
Noah used American spellings like "color" instead of the English "colour" and "music" instead " of "musick". He
also added American words that weren't in English dictionaries like "skunk" and "squash". It took him over 27
years to write his book. When finished in 1828, at the age of 70, Noah's dictionary had 70,000 words in it."
Of course there was Benjamin Franklin who said, that a fellow who only knows one way to spell a word is a poor speller indeed.
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