Meanwhile, the higher classes in the UK wanted to distinguish the way they spoke from the common masses by softening their pronunciation of the ‘r’ sounds. These groups of people spoke using what was called rhotic speech, where the ‘r’ sounds of words are pronounced. In terms of speech, the differences between American and British English actually took place after the first settlers arrived in America.
Allegedly, he changed how the words were spelled to make the American version different from the British as a way of showing cultural independence from its mother country. Meanwhile, in the United States, the lexicographer was a man named Noah Webster. In the UK, the dictionary was compiled by London-based scholars. It took the writing of the first dictionaries to set in stone how these words appeared. At that time, spelling had not yet been standardised. The British actually introduced the language to the Americas when they reached these lands by sea between the 16th and 17th centuries.
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