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 ==Center vs Centre== 
 Usually center in commonwealth English is used to mean the middle of something. 
 i.e. 
 The center of the circle is denoted by O. 
 Usually centre in commonwealth English used to mean a place that is used for one activity. 
 i.e 
 We went to the recreation centre. 

 IMO this should be mentioned somewhere in the article. 
 

 ==Re-Latinisation?== 
 Some of the changes in American spelling were largely phonemic, while others involved the restoration of ""etymologically correct"" Latin (or Greek) spellings, often to words which English had borrowed from French (or indirectly, Greek) – color, center, Gk.διαλογος → Fr. couleur, centre, dialogue → British English colour, centre, dialogue. 
 I took out the centre/center example because I think it is not an illustration of the point the author is trying to make. If I'm not totally off then the etymology is: L. centrum -> Fr. centre (by degradation of final syllables) -> E. centre (taking over the written form, pronunciation then diverges between E. & Fr.) -> center (Websterised). I can't see how center should be any closer to centrum than centre is. BTW I think the whole argument is spurious: it seems to me that Webster did not try to make spelling closer to Latin/Greek but rather tried to simplify it (dialogue became dialog not because of anything Greek but because the -ue is silent). 

 There should be a justification for the etymology claim, or it should be removed. 
 

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 About the spelling differences of -ize/ise:  I am a bit confused by the first sentence. Looking in other sources on the net it seems like it should say British English in the first word. But I have English as a second language why I let others make a statement. 
  Adam L 

  
 The suggestion is often that Webster was responsible for changing spelling, however, the evidence actually points to the contrary. If you look at many 17th & 18th Century British works you will see many American spellings such as center, theater, harbor, honor and favor amongst others. The dictionaries by Blount (Glossographia 1661) and Cockeram (English dictionarie 1647) contain each of these. Also the ""ize"" spellings are the only ones listed which is still the case in British pocket dictionaries; ""ize"" is also the favoured spelling of many British book publishers such as Oxford University Press, Penguin and Pan-Macmillan to name a few. The real changes to British spelling came in the mid 18th Century with Johnson's francophillic tendencies for changing spellings to keep in fashion with the other side of the English channel. Many people also seem to forget that a number of US spellings have already been accepted in the UK; jail instead of gaol, siren instead of syren, alarm instead of alarum, cider instead of cyder, burden instead of burthen, advertise instead of advertize and  baritone instead of barytone to name a few. 

 Rick P 

  

 I'm not sure what the right forum is for raising such issue, but I think that the discussion of og/ogue misses some of the nuance of how the two forms are used in American English. In my experience, educated writers of American English use the term ""analogue"" when writing about something that is analogous to another thing, but use the term ""analog"" as a converse of digital (analog watch, analog circuit). Similarly the term ""dialogue"" is the correct term for verbal discourse, while ""dialog"" is simply another term for ""dialog box"" (the term did originate with ""dialogue"" but it has been said that Apple API engineers standardized on the ""og"" spelling because it would be easier on programmers, with user documentation subsequently using the modified spelling). 

 Similarly, the discussion of disc/disk fails to mention the fac