30.4730, Disc: Why color not colour?

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Subject: 30.4730, Disc: Why color not colour?

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Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2019 10:23:30
From: Michael Helbling [[email protected]]
Subject: Why color not colour?

 
What moved the lexiograph Noah Webster to spell color and not colour in the
american english? 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)



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