balk and baulk

Over on Bluesky last month, I was pulled into a conversation that went something like this: Someone tweets a screenshot of a comment with the phrase Do you baulk at the film reviews... ? Someone American asks "how long have y'all been adding a u to balk ?" And then, predictably, some respondents say it's always been there, Noah Webster took it out. That's the point where someone ( c'est moi! )…