To be fair, any words that did pick up “extra” u’s, did so after Americans explicitly dropped u’s from a bunch of words that originally had them. When Noah Webster had a hand in things, he actively worked to revise spelling. (with an intent to simplify it) There are plenty of sources to read about this, but the short form is that when language was standardizing in the 1800’s, the UK and the US just didn’t work together.
How about this:
Love is a six letter piece of art.
No it isn’t.
It is when U R in it.
Huh?
Louvre.
No where is the hero guy is it over?
No, it’s “louve.” Like how the British put extra u’s in their words.
To be fair, any words that did pick up “extra” u’s, did so after Americans explicitly dropped u’s from a bunch of words that originally had them. When Noah Webster had a hand in things, he actively worked to revise spelling. (with an intent to simplify it) There are plenty of sources to read about this, but the short form is that when language was standardizing in the 1800’s, the UK and the US just didn’t work together.