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Noah Webster, in his 1828 "An American Dictionary of the English Language" codified the distinctions between certain American variants and their British/European counterparts. These included -our word endings which became -or, and -re endings which became -er, among others. Modern variants include such words as tyres/tires, pyjamas/pajamas, and the -ce/-se and -ise/ize divergences.

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