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This tag is for questions concerning the written representation of the English language, especially spelling and word breaks (including hyphenation).

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How come 'ou' was reduced to 'o' in the US?

Not sure how to post a comment, but this is an interesting use of Google's Ngram Viewer. We can see that between 1840 and 1850 color overtook colour (using their American English dataset).
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