British English uses organise, while American prefers to organize. Both are correct depending on the region, but using one consistently is important. The reason for this goes back to the 1800s.

British English typically does not put a period after an abbreviation. Dr, Mr, Mrs, Ms, and vs are all written without periods after them. American English puts periods after abbreviations. Dr., Mr., ...

As Gabe Henry notes in “Enough Is Enuf,” a history of the largely futile efforts to overhaul English spelling, Webster wasn’t motivated by nationalism alone. He had also become an adherent ...

As to the central question of why certain British and American spelling conventions are different, the proposed answer under consideration -- that Americans adopted simplified spellings as a ...

Noah Webster. Wikimedia Commons He proposed several reforms to English spelling in his first dictionary in 1806. On top of the changes mentioned above, Webster also popularized the dropping of ...

If enough British English people want to use Americanisms, then they will do. I don’t think you can stop language, language is like water, you can’t dam it, you can’t stop it flowing where ...

A culture that breeds spelling greatness South Asian-Americans have come out on top each of the past 12 years. In 2015, Shalini Shankar, a professor of anthropology and Asian-American studies at ...

According to "A History of English Spelling" (Manchester University, 2011) by D.G. Scragg, Webster's dictionary of 1828 is largely responsible for standardizing the accepted spelling of American ...