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Necko said

Annadog40 said
No way! Bring the american’s in cause we have improved the language! We know that there is only one O in estrogen!

Does British English put two Os in “estrogen?”  Ostrogen?

Oestrogen.

From wiki

Many words that are written with ae/æ or oe/œ in British English are written with just an e in American English. The sound in question is /i?/ or /?/ (or unstressed /?/). Examples (with non-American letter in bold): aeon, anaemia, anaesthesia, caecum,caesium, diarrhoea, encyclopaedia, faeces, foetal, gynaecology, haemoglobin, haemophilia, leukaemia, oesophagus, oestrogen, orthopaedic, palaeontology, paediatric. Oenology is acceptable in American English but is deemed a minor variant ofenology, whereas although archeology exists in American English, the British version archaeology is probably more common. The chemical haem (named as a shortening of haemoglobin) is spelled heme in American English, to avoid confusion with hem.

Words that can be spelled either way in American English include aesthetics and archaeology (which usually prevail over esthetics and archeology),^[60] as well as palaestra, for which the simplified form palestra is described by Merriam-Webster as “chiefly Brit[ish].”^[61]

Words that can be spelled either way in British English include encyclopaedia, homoeopathy, chamaeleon, mediaeval, foetid and foetus. The spellings foetus and foetal are Britishisms based on a mistaken etymology.^[62] The etymologically correct original spelling fetus reflects the Latin original and is the standard spelling in medical journals worldwide,^[63] though the Oxford English Dictionary comments that “In Latin manuscripts both f?tus and foetus are used”.^[64]

The Ancient Greek diphthongs <??> and <??> were transliterated into Latin as <ae> and <oe>. The ligatures æ and œ were introduced when the sounds became monophthongs, and later applied to words not of Greek origin, in both Latin (for example,cœli) and French (for example, œuvre). In English, which has adopted words from all three languages, it is now usual to replace Æ/æ with Ae/ae and Œ/œ with Oe/oe. In many cases, the digraph has been reduced to a lone e in all varieties of English: for example, oeconomics, praemium, and aenigma.^[65] In others, it is kept in all varieties: for example, phoenix, and usually subpoena,^[66] but Phenix in Virginia. This is especially true of names: Caesar, Oedipus, Phoebe, etc. There is no reduction of Latin -ae plurals (e.g., larvae); nor where the digraph <ae>/<oe> does not result from the Greek-style ligature: for example, maelstrom, toe. The British form aeroplane is an instance (compare other aero- words such as aerosol). The now chiefly North Americanairplane is not a respelling but a recoining, modelled after airship and aircraft. The word airplane dates from 1907,^[67] at which time the prefix aero- was trisyllabic, often written aëro-.