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US air force finds contractor who walked into propeller had become disorientated
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Pray tell us, which words?
Not a diphthong. A digraph. Either way American English didn't "change" this, the now-prevailing British and American standards just standardized different spellings.
I assume you're referencing words like realize/realise, defense/defence, maneuver/maneouvre. In which case same thing as for o/ou, Americans didn't "change" this. These were spellings that were already common throughout Middle English; American and British varietes of English just happened to diverge around the time of the printing press (because the printing press was introduced to the English right at the beginning of colonization of the Americas) and they adopted different standards based on the many, MANY spellings already in use.
Saying the Americans were [more] "prescriptivist" because common standard spellings in the US and common standard spellings in the UK are different is... a take, for sure.
... what? You seem to be unaware of what a diphthong is. "ou" is a digraph, which in words like "flavour" tend to "represent" a monophthong (or a syllabic rhotic in GenAm). You clearly do not know enough about the linguistics you're trying to argue about.