The settling of the “new world” is one of the few times in history that intentional spelling reforms actually took.
Noah Webster published a dictionary with his preferred spellings, and because those dictionaries that disagreed were an ocean away, we spell things with less vowels and also we sometimes put our E’s and R’s in a different order.
It’s funny cause this joke only works in American English about a British place… in all other English variants it’s spelt mould :3
https://lemmy.world/post/21426814
A very relevant AskLemmy question I asked a month ago.
https://lemmy.world/comment/13162075
Huh, see this is actually how I use them. Mold for the verb ‘to mold something’ and it’s associated noun, mould for the fungus.
The settling of the “new world” is one of the few times in history that intentional spelling reforms actually took.
Noah Webster published a dictionary with his preferred spellings, and because those dictionaries that disagreed were an ocean away, we spell things with less vowels and also we sometimes put our E’s and R’s in a different order.