RE English is spoken on all five continents
brothers George and Charles Merriam, who continued to publish the dictionary under the
name Merriam-Webster.
Webster's aim was to spell words more closely to the way they were pronounced and to
create obvious differences to British English. So he got rif of the ''uu'' in colour and
favour. He left out the double ''l'' in travelled and cancelled. He changed the centre to
center. Not all Webster's spellings became popular: he tried to change soup into soop,
toungue into tung, women to wimmen, etc. The strenght of Webster's dictionary, wich
sold more than 100 million copies, was that he included lots of the words from the New
World, such as tobacco, potato, maize, and many others. He also added slange
expressions and numerous technical and medical terms taken from Latin.
Examples of different spelling
American English British English
Color Colour
Center Centre
Traveling Travelling
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