It's been quite a while since we posted an entry from Joanne Rudling and her excellent Spelling Blog.
At the turn of the year Joanne published a lesson on the differences between American and British spelling.
These are the questions she posed to her blog readers:
A lot of American spellings have fewer letters, why?
Do you know why Americans changed British spellings?
What year was the first American dictionary published?
She answers these 'history' questions in this video:
In another entry on her blog she goes over the differences in spelling between American and British English.
If you drop by this second entry you will also be able to do a short spelling test that Joanne has prepared.
There she will explain to you the difference between the -ise and -ize ending in some verbs (realise vs realize).
