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Depending on how you speak english will likely determine whether American English or British english is easier to learn. Organization makes more sense to Americans than organisation. Idk about british people, but americans will pronounce the third syllable the same way we pronounce the word "size". That's why to us, it makes sense to use a z over an s.

Center makes more sense than centre, because phonetically we say "senter" not "sentrah" or "sentray".

Favorite makes more sense than favourite, because the second syllable is pronounced just like the word "or". Now there could be some dispute with the word color over colour. For someone with a british or some other accent, colour may actually phonetically make sense in spelling. But for Americans, we prounounce our R's pretty hardly- or at least we emphasize them more. Phonetically for some Americans, color makes sense. But for somone like myself, culer would actually make more sense- but that's just me hahaha.

An overwhleming amount of Slang exists in both British and American english variations. Even as an American, I have met some Americans who have such a thick country/southern accent that I may not actually understand them if they are not speaking clearly.

From what I'm gathering, people who support the British only argument are biased. There's no explanation as to why it makes it better than American english. And just because british english is used in England and it's former colonies, doesn't by default mean that it's the proper form of english. In fact that doesn't make any sense from an academic perspective because language evolves. You all can probably decipher shakesperian english, and could probably get some kind of idea of what is being said in middle english- unless of course if you have read a lot of it. But I bet that none of you can read old english (don't confuse old english with younger forms of english).