美式英语和英式英语拼写上的差异很大程度上因一人而起。 (来源：英语学习门户网站EnglishCN.com)

　　Noah Webster, whose name you still find on the front of many American dictionaries, was a patriotic man. Between 1783 and 1785, he produced three books on the English language for American schoolchildren. During his lifetime, 385 editions of his Speller were published. The modern US spelling of color was initially spelt in the British way, colour, but this changed in later editions.

　　在美国的许多词典封面上你还能找到一个人的名字，一位富有爱国心的美国人——诺亚·韦伯斯特。在1783至1785年间，韦伯斯特为美国的学龄儿童创作了三本关于英语的书籍。韦伯斯特一生中，其拼写教材出了385版。现代美式英语中“color(颜色)”一词起初是英式的拼写方式，但在后来的版本中，这些词的拼写方式发生了变化。

　　9、-ize is not an American suffix-ize.

　　并不是美式英语中的后缀。

　　There is a popular belief that words such as popularise/ize, maximise/ize and digitise/ize have different spellings in British and American English.

　　人们普遍认为，popularise/ize(普及)、maximise/ize(最大化)、digitise/ize(数字化)等词在英式英语和美式英语中拼写方式不同。

　　Look at that z – isn’t it snazzy? It’s got to be American, hasn’t it?

　　看看这个Z——不是很时髦吗?它一定是美式英语，不是吗?