You can look me up on that pet peeves thread, but I've consistently railed against criticism of "American spellings." I admit to being caught out on Wordle by one such a couple of weeks ago, but a moment's reflection showed me that such criticism is completely irrational. Not only is a lot of American spelling more logical than English-English, much of it actually predates it. Harping on about Latin/Greek/A.N.Other origins of words is fine, but the bottom line, whether we like it or not (and you don't have to), is that "correct English" is wot people speak, not wot the grammar police or students of etymology like to dictate. Digging and delving into ancient Latin/Middle English/ Geoffrey Of Monmouth is a useful and informative endeavour, but it's English like wot people speak now wot matters. And there are seven times as many yanks as Brits, they all speak English, so, Brits, shut up about American spellings!

And one wonderful thing is that "albeit" can never be a Wordle word!