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Originally Posted by DNSB
As for the reasoning behind dropping the u from words due to their origin in the French language which seems to be an insult to the country that was the largest supporter of the American revolutionary war? Francophobia (gallophobia)?
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The "u" was dropped because some newspapers paid their authors by the letter. That is the source of many of the early changes for "US" english, simple shortening words so the authors could be paid less.