• ciko22i3
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    1 year ago

    a lot of them were made for national pride (not English ones necessarily)

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      But even the differences between British and American English are in part out of the national need to separate from each other. English was standardized around the time of the American independence and the first American dictionary was oriented at the British one, later the same guy made a different one to set American spelling apart. Words for Granted made a podcast episode about it.