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Noah Webster was the first person to write and publish an American English dictionary "An American Dictionary of the English Language" in 1828. he was a schoolteacher and wanted to simp[lify the language by removing 'useless' letters from words such as coloUr, freiGHt, and of course the big change, changing the -ise ending for -ize.

Local differences also had a huge influence on the language, words coming from Native American(is thsat politically correct ? ) words, Yiddish words and phrases play a major part.

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