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As I understand it it was less so a matter of direct spelling changes and was moreso a matter of "correcting" pronunciation of school children. While it's generally failed every generation or two it seems the English face some version, the most notable being the shifter of how to pronounce solder so as to pronounce the L. Though that one in particular may just be people not knowing how to say it as well.
Also as an aside Webster simply documented the most common spellings of words at the time, while he definitely had an impact on a lot of the spelling most of it was pretty well spread by the point he published his dictionary. Printing presses charged by the letter so superfluous letters generally got abandoned namely the U in a lot of words since it generally doesn't effect inflection in American English, I've also seen variants wherein silent Ls and Ks were dropped though most of those ones didn't stick probably because nife just kinda looks wrong.