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Quatrarius  ·  3427 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I am lonely will anyone speak to me

differences in dictionary spellings, mostly

webster's used "-or" at the end of words, johnson's used "-our" (honor, honour)

metathesis got codified in american english but not british english, thus "-er" instead of "-re" (saber, sabre)

sometimes from orthographical simplification in american english, such as logue > log (catalog, analog) or æ and œ > e

so really all sorts of reasons