Computing and Politics

[Henry Spencer]

On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Hugh Reilly wrote:
> Actually, I just heard that the "American" spellings were created by Webster 
> (of Webster's Dictionary fame) who was doing his patriotic duty...

A number of them were created by Benjamin Franklin -- for example, he's
responsible for us writing "jail" instead of "gaol" -- who simply got fed
up with the obscure stupidities of British spelling, and as a writer and
publisher, was in a position to popularize his own version.

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org

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