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ELI5: Why do people spell words differently depending on countries? Like in America we spell it "armor " other people spell it, "armour." Same with color and colour and favorite and favourite and grey and gray.
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This is because American English is kind of like a time capsule of older British English. Back in the early 1600s when America was settled, English used -or that came from Latin words. However in the mean time of the 1700 and 1800s British people decided they wanted to have French spellings which use -our for their French-derived words. America didn't change because it was much more detached culturally from the mother country than the commonwealth countries. This is also why Americans call the kicking sport "soccer" while the British and everyone else call it "football." *Soccer* was the original British term, but it was changed to *football* after America already got used to the original word.