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Old 14th January 2018, 05:27   #20  |  Link
manono
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Originally Posted by feisty2 View Post
...take the word "color" for example, it first originated in Latin as "color", then old French took it and turned it to "colour", while u guys pick the later mutated French version as the etymology of "colour", we go straight to its real Latin origin, we use the Latin spelling as its etymology, so "color" is both more etymologically and phonetically correct...
That's all very nice but I don't believe an effort to take spellings back to their true roots had anything to do with it, but it was more a desire to simplify spellings and consciously differentiate them from those of the 'mother country'.

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The American preference for color took hold in the middle 19th century thanks in large part to the conscious simplification of English spellings by people such as the lexicographer Noah Webster.
https://www.quora.com/Why-do-America...-the-same-word

Also:

http://www.bbcamerica.com/anglopheni...ish-spellings/
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