[Dx-qsl] Fwd: postal increase

[Htorr at aol.com]

I heard it was mostly due to Noah Webster who, when writing the American  
dictionary, decided to try to simplify the spelling somewhat.
 
Tom,  W6HT
 
 
In a message dated 2/4/2011 6:09:46 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
w2irt at verizon.net writes:

Probably  the same reason we drop the "u" in colour, flavour, odour, etc and
also why  a headline might read "a drug arrest" rather than "a drugs 
arrest."
- And  for the same reason that in the previous sentence, we use double
quotes  rather than single and put the punctuation inside the quote marks. I
would  have to say it's just the way the language evolved over the last
150-200  years and that we likely dropped those extra letters as a form of
brevity.  My question along those lines would be why you brits name a car's
luggage  space after a piece of winter footwear <grin>? In reading a  good
degree of news from various U.K. sites, the one thing that really  distracts
me is the British use of the letter s where we use a z.  Privatise, stylize,
etc.