Ah, the small minded English speaker who forgets that this was once a regularly used word in spoken and written English. Only, they also forget that, when various English speakers escaped various iniquities and domestic tyranny, they took with them words they found had a continued use and value.
Indeed, Americans also developed a simpler relationship between spelling and pronunciation, viz Hertford became Hartford. Same pronunciation, but rationalized spelling.
Oh, and before you try to pick me up on the use of "z" in "rationalized", might I refer you to the standard English usage prior to the "s" becoming the preferred spelling in Britain in the 20th Century.
Thick people. Boils my piss, so to speak.