Most of these have found their way into our language from the Greek and Roman, through the channel of the French. These are such as end in re, as sceptre, theatre, metre, mitre, nitre, lustre, sepulchre, spectre, and a few others. We have a few words of another class which remain as outlaws in orthography. Here is his discussion of such words in A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language (1806): One dedicated opponent of - re endings of the type that the poster has in mind was Noah Webster.
Noah Webster on '-er' and '-re' word endings (chiefly '-ter' and '-tre') Why is this? Is there some etymology behind the "er" vs. They're both examples of words that use these spellings regardless of your country of origin, but it's not exactly clear why that is, or why there's even a difference between British and American English spellings of words. which always use the "re" ending, or like river, letter, member, etc. The weird spelling quirk doesn't explain why there's words that aren't derivative of other words like acre, mediocre, etc.
There's center in American English, and centre in British English, which I always chalked up to weird spelling quirks between the two forms of English (similar to color vs. There's words like reader with the "er" ending, but that's because reader is derivative of read, and the "er" is tacked on at the end to create a noun.īut there's cases where creating a noun is not the case, and it's not as clear why an ending was chosen. There's some words that end in "er" or "re" depending on the word, and depending on what country you learned English from.
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