Especially for Americans it seems very hard to spell words like they should be spelled. Is it the education system? The lack of interest in their own language? As far as I can tell more than a few of the differences between 'proper' English and American English are attributed to a Mr. Webster (yes, the one from the dictionary) who thought there would be justice in 'coming free from their English suppressors' (
the Tea Party people were considered the rioters at the time. And they weren't even people of colour!) and give the proud new nation it's very own language. By stealing almost every single word from the English and simplify them to fit better with the average IQ from the zealots, criminals and other idiots who now populated the land they stole from the native Americans by slaughtering them.
'The grammar is weak in this one'
I guess the reason why the national spelling bee is such a big thing in the USA because people are in awe of all those kids who can actually spell. 'They must be really, really smart!' Or perhaps they simply paid attention in class.
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