Comment by penguin_booze

English is basically a random mix of half a dozen languages with typos, bad grammar and bad style. All of its dialects have ridiculous spelling.

I like and endorse Webster's reforms (-or, -er, -ize). Why write the French way? What have the Normans ever done for us? Apart from the legal system, chivalry, heraldry, and centuries of low-key class warfare.

> American is basically English with typos, bad grammar, and bad style.

In that sense, english is basically bastardized old norse.

Well if the British invented something for once they can spell that thing with extra letters.

Hallelujah

Somebody must be remarkably thin skinned and with a poor sense of humour (the kind spelt with a 'U') to have downvoted you!