I was raised by Americans in Texas and I only recently learned that when I spell 'Favourite' and 'colour' I'm not using American English. I also tend to say 'Lift' over elevator and 'boot' instead of trunk. I don't know how this happened because no one else in my family does this nor did I grow up watching British television
If you have an apple device here is a quick thing: go to your settings. Open it up and go to 'General' then 'keyboard'. Delete 'English' and replace it with 'English (UK)' or 'English (Canadian)' there are others depending on your country.
Yes! When I moved out of London, my teachers kept marking those words wrong on spelling tests, and autocorrect got so annoying that now I'm a mess who writes 'color' on a computer, but 'colour' by hand.
Technically, there's no good reason for "color", "favorite", and "honor" to be correct. It was done by newspapers to reduce the amount of ink necessary for printing, in order to save money. Same for the spelling of "Cleveland" (it was originally Cleaveland, but again, saving money is more important than being correct). It's one of my bigger pet peeves, especially when people insist that those spellings are the "right way" and the "u" ones are dumb.
Ha! There's a language that loves extraneous letters. They use a lot of vowels and my German brethren use a lot of consonants. The French also don't give a damn what their letters spell; they still pronounce their words however in hell they want!
American: "What's your name?"
Frenchman: "Douvfjiurdgjoeauoix."
American: "How do you pronounce that?"
Frenchman: "Fred."
Maybe if we just got all the European languages together it would work out!
It actually works in both cultures. King George up until the revolution had pronounced words containing the hard "R" and words such as "Bath" & "Path" in the same way some Americans did, notably, President Washington.
(The ahh sounds in England was considered 'lower class' until the 'Queens English' or 'Broadcast English' influenced the upper class way of enunciation).
Anyway, the spellings were primarily changed by Webster himself.
When documenting the language, Webster wanted a clear and obvious difference between the two written dialects.
This "bordering" in the early 19th century was also taken up across the pond in words like "magic" and "music", formerly "Magick" and "Musick".
It's also been attributed to the fact that English is a Germanic language, and influenced by Latin And French.
You aren't joking, at least not very well. That's my problem. You're insulting an entire nation of people (Actually, two, in your above comment related to the French language), and trying to make yourself out to be superior.
Read it again spaz, you missed where I said German uses a lot of consonants. Dude if comments on the spelling of words are insulting to you I suggest you crawl back in bed and hug your teddy bear; you're not grown up enough for the world yet. I'll offer no apologies here.
American: "What's your name?"
Frenchman: "Douvfjiurdgjoeauoix."
American: "How do you pronounce that?"
Frenchman: "Fred."
Maybe if we just got all the European languages together it would work out!
(The ahh sounds in England was considered 'lower class' until the 'Queens English' or 'Broadcast English' influenced the upper class way of enunciation).
Anyway, the spellings were primarily changed by Webster himself.
When documenting the language, Webster wanted a clear and obvious difference between the two written dialects.
This "bordering" in the early 19th century was also taken up across the pond in words like "magic" and "music", formerly "Magick" and "Musick".
It's also been attributed to the fact that English is a Germanic language, and influenced by Latin And French.
Sorry to confuse you; I meant "prouperly"! Ha!