People from the United States and England both speak the English language.
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They can understand each other`s books, television programs, and movies.
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But there are some interesting differences between American and British English because of the differences in the history of the two nations.
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Most of the first immigrants to America came from England and spoke the English language.
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They discovered many new plants and animals on the North American continent for which they didn`t have any English names.
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So they borrowed names for many of these things from the Native American languages. For example, skunk and tobacco are not English wor¡¦(»ý·«)
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ter wrote his first book for them.
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He called it The American Spelling Book.
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Webster wanted to make the spelling of American words easier.
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For example, he wanted to spell weather and feather as wether and fether.
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But his new spellings were very unpopular.
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Noah Webster produced his first dictionary of American English in 1806.
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He put many of his unusual spellings in his dictionary.
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He also added over five thousand new American words that were unknown in England.
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Many people were unhappy with Webster`s new spellings and new words so in his second dictionary of 1828 he changed many spellings to their old forms.
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