And for quite a few of them, it's because the British took a French word and re-pronounced it according to English spelling rules, while Americans preferred a pronunciation that sounded more ...

Over the last thousand years English spelling has been influenced by lots of different languages, including French, German and Latin. Because English has borrowed words from other languages ...

schoolchildren will be able to spell phonetically and football players will be able to play with their hands. Two years ago, suggested new spellings for more than 2,000 French words sparked furore ...