Computing and Politics

[Tom Legrady]

Some American spellings were created by Benjamin Frfanklin; some were 
due to a later president ( late 19th/early 20th century, I believe), I'm 
sure others have played their part.


Tom

Noah John Gellner wrote:

>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.
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>>>>
>>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.
>>
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>>>Sorry, I meant spellings.
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