Jon, the 1825 "standardisation" doesn't replace the fact that a lot what we call American spellings were used before that, in both America and Britain. Old Webster had a stubborn individualist streak that had him promoting American spellings, many of which were probably already in use (no scholarship from me on that, mind you...). Much earlier, Dr Johnson and his dictionary did much to standardise British spelling, which probably did away with most of any tendency to use American-type spelling this end. So we can blame Webster and Johnson for perpetuating modern arguments about which we should be using. I actually prefer American spellings that try to simplify how words look on the page. For now, I'll be sticking with "our" version of -ise/-ize and stuff like that, and I like the useful distinction between practice and practise, though I can see that routine confusion between the two weakens my stance...

And I'll stoutly defend the right of Wordle to use American spellings if it wants to!