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Old 02-26-2009, 10:40 AM   #340
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Originally Posted by Wetdogeared View Post
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?
So the British would spell Americanisation and Americans Americanization or would Americans spell Americanisation and the British Americanization?
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