You might have wondered why Americans spell things differently for quite some time now, but this teacher from Australia is here to help by blowing all the dust away from good old etymology. His series of videos, which have over 65.3K followers, are playfully marketed as “Things I teach children that adults would froth,” with froth being an Australian word used to describe being really excited over something. Among the brilliant videos, one of them has the explanation to the history of different spellings.
Turns out that Noah Webster was behind the English language spelling reform
The teacher admits in the beginning of the video that growing up, he had no clue why Australians and Americans spelled color differently. Turns out there is one man behind this whole ordeal by the name of Noah Webster, who is the mastermind behind the thicker-than-life Webster’s dictionary, hence the name. As the Aussie teacher explains, Webster’s intention was to simplify the language.