Timeline for Why does a difference in spelling exist between British and American English?
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| Apr 15, 2018 at 13:37 | history | edited | Mari-Lou A | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 3, 2014 at 1:32 | comment | added | Oldcat | It costs money to ship those extra letters to the New World. | |
| Sep 11, 2012 at 16:51 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Sep 11, 2012 at 12:46 | history | protected | RegDwigнt | ||
| Sep 29, 2011 at 11:13 | vote | accept | Adam George | ||
| Sep 28, 2011 at 0:54 | answer | added | David Schwartz | timeline score: 12 | |
| Sep 28, 2011 at 0:37 | comment | added | Daniel | @Billy: Do you really have to suspect anything when I've just given you a beautiful link? ;) | |
| Sep 28, 2011 at 0:32 | comment | added | Billy | Actually, the original Latin spellings were color, honor, etc. I suspect the answer is simply that the two dialects grew up geographically far apart and without all that much intercommunication! | |
| Sep 28, 2011 at 0:29 | history | edited | Daniel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 28, 2011 at 0:19 | comment | added | Daniel | Doesn't address cancelled and dialogue, but related: english.stackexchange.com/questions/9850/… | |
| Sep 28, 2011 at 0:10 | history | asked | Adam George | CC BY-SA 3.0 |