The evolution of words.

[Afromonk]

It always winded me up in Canada when my Uncle kept telling me us "British" say Aluminum wrong.
IT'S FUCKING ALUMINIUM.
Man, i scoured textbooks and the interwebz and found out it was originally Aluminium but became Aluminum in the states and Canada after an advertising campaign spellt it wrong.
Bastards.

Theres plenty of others too.
Like Color.
It's Colour and you know it.

[Bad_Intentions]

Favourite, favorite. I can't stand it either.

[Lao Tzu]

behaviour behavior realise realize
nah it's no big deal until Brits start getting corrected on it.
But you realise English was taken from lots of languages to start with.

[Afromonk]

I know it is.
But Majority American is British and Dutch.

[parkus]

Cos America wanted it's own language but couldn't be arsed with making one from scratch, so they just altered a few things.

[Mr.Happy]

All languages evolve. It's a natural process. Nobody stole anything, nobody corrupted anything, nobody bastardized anything. Stop getting pissed off about variation.

[Mantikore]

yeah its been quite a few centuries since colonisation. one would expect the language to diverge somewhat. though thats probably stopped now considering communication between the continents is so easy nowadays

[Equinox]

Cos America wanted it's own language but couldn't be arsed with making one from scratch, so they just altered a few things.

This.

[Ambient]

Linguistics is generally hella boring.

[ArmsMerchant]

Cos America wanted it's own language but couldn't be arsed with making one from scratch, so they just altered a few things.

Yep.

Most of us don't know how to hold a fucking fork properly, either.

I think it was a Frenchman who observed that Americans shot right from being primitive to being decadent, without ever having been civilized.

[Euda]

American-English isn't honourable.

[PirateJoe]

Sir Humphry made a bit of a mess of naming this new element, at first spelling it alumium (this was in 1807) then changing it to aluminum, and finally settling on aluminium in 1812.
http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/aluminium.htm

It was aluminum before it was aluminium.

[Afromonk]

All the texts i gathered say the opposite.
And it was spellt accidentally on an advertising campaign.

[Mr.Happy]

All the texts i gathered say the opposite.
And it was spellt accidentally on an advertising campaign.

'All the texts you've gathered' on the history of the correct nomenclature for a particular metal? You need a hobby.

And the first 10 results on a Google search all said it was originally aluminum, then changed to aluminum, then was accepted as the official spelling in the USA 30 years after an advertiser accidentally spelt the name wrong.

[Wineblood]

I think it was a Frenchman who observed that Americans shot right from being primitive to being decadent, without ever having been civilized.

QFT

[enkrypt0r]

You guys did a decent job making the language, we just fixed it up for you. You're welcome.

[Dodger]

I'm pretty sure when we kicked your ass in The Revolution and in 1812, not to mention prevented Hitler from taking over Britain, that we received the right to change a couple words and make them more phonetic.

[Afromonk]

I don't beleive you stopped Hitler.
In fact you didn't really help with fighting the Nazis but rather the Japs.

And yes Mr.Happy i do, sad isn't it?
Its 'cos of my bastard uncle.