A peculiarity for you Roy.
During the Napoleonic wars around 1806 when both our Nations were very young, the King's English was the mainstay of language for the aspiring emerging merchant classes and the court class spoke French especially in the Courts of the Scots, but the peculiarity I allude to is that the language of the King himself was in fact High German.
There are several books available that write about the reasoning behind American English democratising the language as a device to further distance themselves from being a colony???? Maybe it leads me to an irrational dislike of spell check devices and their default settings.
