Computing and Politics

[Noah John Gellner]

My understanding is that Webster's goal was to remove the French from
English spellings.

'On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 23:02, Hugh Reilly wrote:
> >>Many of the American pronunciations are the "original" versions, which 
> >>were around before current British usage.
> 
> Actually, I just heard that the "American" spellings were created by Webster 
> (of Webster's Dictionary fame) who was doing his patriotic duty in making 
> the American spellings uniquely American to differentiate them from the 
> British way... basically the same impetus that drives many of us to 
> jealously guard our "Canadian" spellings.
> 
> >
> >Sorry, I meant spellings.
> >
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