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The settling of the "new world" is one of the few times in history that intentional spelling reforms actually took.
Noah Webster published a dictionary with his preferred spellings, and because those dictionaries that disagreed were an ocean away, we spell things with less vowels and also we sometimes put our E's and R's in a different order.