Have you ever wondered how some of our words have a uniquely American spelling? Being the word geek that I am, I always wondered how Americans ended up with spellings that were different from the British English spellings- words like “flavor” (flavour), “center” (centre), “organize” (organise), and “traveler” (traveller). Seems like we not only declared our independence from Great Britain, but we also developed our own uniquely American spellings of words. Here are two short and fun articles that explain how this happened.
http://webstersdictionary1828.com/NoahWebster
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/spelling/british-and-spelling
