There is the argument that they use a purer form of english, comming from 17th century without modern adaptations, alternatively the people that could not spell the name of the ships were boarded first. Then later the dispossed working classes from europe that were put out of their crofts after a starch only diet since they started solids and didnt have ingenuity to follow the french peasants and slaughter the ruling classes. Its like all arguments, what separates the English from the Americans is not spelling, but sense of homour. But the gap is closing, as they get more used to irony, sarcasm and wit and move away from the obvious. I can not spell for toffee, mostly because dsylexica, miss out words and typing in english on a german key board doesnt help. But the question is this, in our on hearts we know our answer, do we think as europeans we out class, have more culture, and general knowledge of rest of what goes on in the world. About super powers, they change, USSR used to be one in my lifetime. Napaleon and Stalin said china was sleeping tiger or dragon, India is too, Brazil has the most productive arable fertile land ind the world now without further encrouchment. Who will be singing loudest next