How British and American Spelling Parted Ways Video

Published on 6 Oct 2016

These days, when we want to know how to spell a word, we have an accepted authority to look to: the dictionary. But that wasn’t always the case. Here's how Brits and Americans came to look to two different authorities. Produced for Mental Floss.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmxHfRCrMCM