Post by account_disabled on Feb 11, 2024 9:19:05 GMT
From London (not Oxford, for some reason) who wanted to just collect all known English words, while the American one was made by a lexicographer called Noah Webster. Webster wanted American spelling to not only be more straightforward but different from UK spelling, as a way of America showing its independence from the former British rule. He dropped the letter u from words like colour and honour – which had developed from the French influence in England – to make them color and honor instead.
He did the same to words ending in -ise to make them -ize, because Belgium Telemarketing Data he thought American English spelling should reflect the way it was said. Plus, z is a much cooler letter to write, so there’s that. 4. American English likes to drop words completely Sometimes there are differences in American English that make no sense to speakers of British English – like when Americans remove entire verbs from a sentence. When an American person tells someone they’ll write a letter to them, they say “I’ll write them”. When
you ask an American if they want to go shopping, they might say “I could”. In the UK these replies would sound really weird, as we would say “I’ll write to you” and “I could go”. Dropping the verb might be because Americans want to say stuff faster – or maybe it’s because the British just like to spell out exactly what they’re saying. Nobody’s right here, but if we were to declare , because frankly the American way doesn’t make sense. Not that I’m biased.Mandarin Chinese
He did the same to words ending in -ise to make them -ize, because Belgium Telemarketing Data he thought American English spelling should reflect the way it was said. Plus, z is a much cooler letter to write, so there’s that. 4. American English likes to drop words completely Sometimes there are differences in American English that make no sense to speakers of British English – like when Americans remove entire verbs from a sentence. When an American person tells someone they’ll write a letter to them, they say “I’ll write them”. When
you ask an American if they want to go shopping, they might say “I could”. In the UK these replies would sound really weird, as we would say “I’ll write to you” and “I could go”. Dropping the verb might be because Americans want to say stuff faster – or maybe it’s because the British just like to spell out exactly what they’re saying. Nobody’s right here, but if we were to declare , because frankly the American way doesn’t make sense. Not that I’m biased.Mandarin Chinese