![]() One of his goals, besides improving literacy, was to simplify the language and some spellings. He was the writer of the first United States dictionary and a number of language primers. The reason the spelling is different in the United States is a man named Noah Webster. In United Kingdom or other Commonwealth dialects, ‘vigour’ is the more common spelling. In the United States, it is more common to spell the word ‘vigor’. While they are spelled differently, there is no difference between the two other than the region of the speaker or speller. ![]() Someone with a lot of vigor or vigour would have the ability to display a lot of strength if they were pushed to it. They mainly refer to the concept of strength or to it as a capacity. This nearly always means an active show of strength, such as weightlifting, instead of passive strength, such as enduring a hardship. ‘Vigor’ and ‘vigour’ are both noun forms. The adjective was first formed in Medieval Latin as ‘vigorosus’ from the word ‘vigor’, became the French ‘vigoros’, and was adopted into English from there. ‘Vigorous’ took a more indirect route to English. The Latin ‘vigor’ came from the adjective ‘vigeo’, which meant ‘I thrive’, ‘I prosper’, or ‘I live’. Both ‘vigor’ and ‘vigour’ come from the Latin and French spelling of ‘vigor’ – though it was also spelled ‘vigur’ and ‘vigour’ in French – which means much the same thing as the modern words do. All three words came through French from the Latin language. The words ‘vigor’, ‘vigour’, and ‘vigorous’ are all forms of the same concept. ![]()
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