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Originally Posted by ravenne
Isnīt it Americanisation?
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Noah Webster compilled a dictionary of English in 1806 in which he changed the spelling of many words in order for them to be easier to spell, therefore the "s" in many words that really sounds like ''z" was changed e.g. "realise" vs "realize", but did this really make things easier now that words have different spellings?