How & why did Americans change the English Language?

Question

eg: Candy for sweets
Color for colour
I'd be interested to know how the change came about...
This is NOT a criticism....

Answer 1

Two things.
First most small changes were due to poor grammar, spelling, lax rules of English when we broke off of England. two people of similar studies break off from one another for a long period of time are going to come up with slight difference in their future studies.
Second. Some changes were made intentional as a way to further separate our selves from England. there were even discussions to make German the main language, but was shot down due to the lack of country men who spoke it, and the absence of formal education to enforce it at the time.

There you go

Answer 2

Spellings changed partly because when Noah Webster wrote his dictionary, he decided to simplify spelling where possible (e.g., "color" for "colour"). And many of the other changes were either for things that came along after we became a nation, such as "elevator" instead of "lift," or as part of the influence other languages had on us. There was a lot, too--when Congress voted to decide what language we would speak, we only picked English by one vote.

Answer 3

It has not change, it is more conservative than the English used in England. I mean the pronunciation is quite old fashion in USA. You asked about the spelling, that's different. The immigrates spelled the language as they though it should be as written, letter by letter as it is spoken. In some languages, like the Finnish language, it is written very close to the way it is spoken.

Answer 4

Americans did not want to talk like the English.Kind of like Blacks with there own language and younger people have there own.