• My brother in christ, you do realize the british spelling is the original, right?

    The reason you spell it differently was a conscious decision of your revolutionaries to differentiate themselves from the brits

    You used the same spelling before your independence, you know that, right?

    And how about “noone can bully” instead of “everyone can bully”?

    Just throwing tht in the room here.

    I won’t bully you for writing “recognise” just to assert your independence, you let us be us and everyone is happy, is tht a Deal?

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      No, it’s not, go learn history. Its a mix and match on both sides usually because spelling wasn’t standard anyway. Webster picked ones he liked, mostly to feel superior to Brits, Brits picked the opposite to feel superior to americans. We have the legacy accent, uk has the posh accent to sound different. We did simplify some words, Brits complexified others to be more posh.