American English (by Solvejg Braathen)

I never thought that American English could change something on British English, maybe the word change does not suit in this case but I cannot think in other word. Of course I know that American English is world widespread and that it influences the whole world but that British English was also being influenced is something new. After I finished reading this article I could realize that I already knew some of the reasons why it is happening, and if we stop to think we will see it is true. As David Crystal points out in his article, Americans were the first one to create lots of things and named these things according to their spelling and pronunciation rules, for example Internet was developed in the USA, and the words related to it have American spelling. I think it very interesting article, I wish you like it.

http://www.davidcrystal.com/DC_articles/English42.pdf