The Fury on 20 October 2009
| SamuelRSmith said: I don't really think any posts have answered the question as to why there are unnecessary letters in our words. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_spelling_differences#Historical_origins <- here. |
Depends on how you class these 'unnecessary letters'.
Reading over that entire article make me realise how redundant many of the omissions or even additions are in the American versions. I've never understood why there is a difference in Cheque and Check though, even the explanation given on that page doesn't explain this. And I'd pronounce many of the american versions of our words completely differently, not just the spelling. (Example, Plough and Plow (the plow being pronounced to rhyme with 'low' in my head).
Hmm, pie.
