Do americans really spell words wrong?

Question

Like color should be colour and Favorite should be favourite. Or Savior should be saviour?

Answer 1

Yes, we may spell a word or to wong ,but we can say them soooooo well!:)

Answer 2

americans just have their own way of spelling a few words
Differences between British and American English.

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Answer 3

they're not spelled wrong they are just spelled differently. its a transition of language and it has been happening long before the english language came to be. did you know that modern english is a combination of many other languages and dialects?

take a look at this timeline to get an idea

http://www.danshort.com/ie/timeline.htm

observe how the languages changed over time. what would you say if someone who spoke old or middle english (in theory) told you that you spoke english wrong? you would say them that the language changed with time and will continue to change. who knows what will become of the english language 200 years from now? or 400? or 600?

so back to my point, americans do not spell words wrong.

Answer 4

Well to them it's not wrong. They have essentially altered the English language. Usually, it is just explained that such words are the "American" spelling. They are a lot bigger than us so we let them get away with it

Answer 5

well i am from canada but my parents are from eruope. I don't know if americans spell words wrong but i like how they spell in eruope. just the way it sounds for example "color" vs. "colour".

Answer 6

For Americans, no.

Answer 7

That's the difference between American English and "the Queen's English." It's not spelled wrong to us. To us, your way is wrong.

Answer 8

fairly, color is the ecu thanks to assert it, yet shade is grammatically maximum acceptable proper in u.s.. After the yankee revolution at the same time as human beings needed independence from Britain, they replaced the spelling in a large kind of their words to be a lot less British. party: The British word, shoppe, became replaced to purchase. And color became replaced to shade.

Answer 9

It's not wrong here. It's American english. British english uses the extra 'u's in everything. The languages are very diverse, not just in spelling, but in terminology. Like our truck is your lorry or lorrie or whatever, our cookie is your biscuit, etc. To us, you are spelling it wrong. That's like saying that someone who speaks Chinese "talks wrong" because it's not the same as your language.

Answer 10

I do not think we spell words wrong........we just create new ones......Why not say Filadelfia instead of Philadelphia.........it would be so much easier if we could choose how to spell our words.......