The football thing is because we already have a "Football". The rest is just a different dialect. Like glacier:glass-see-er. Or how America has New York and Southern dialects.
I'm not quite sure why we say things differently, we just do. The evolution of language I guess. I mean English and German used to be the same language, but then they branched off. If you study if though you'll realize that many things in both language are very much alike.
Well over the years the accents of immigrants and the fact that we're so far from England, we just developed our own dialect. Oh yeah, i almost forgot because of the years of british rule we're just doing it to piss you off.
Don't forget fags. Over here it is interchangable between gay people or ciggarrettes.
I'm with Deth on this one. It's all to annoy the Brits. As American 'culture' is inferior (in almost every way) to British culture, they feel spelling things wrong will somehow make up for that. Doing a great job so far.
It's just like Spanish varies from different parts of the world. I could turn it all back on you and ask why to you call cookies biscuits? You have to remember that America is a melting pot of many cultures that have different dialects. Heck, you just go from one end of the US to the other, and you're speaking the SAME language, but it still varies a little.
Heck, you just go from one end of the US to the other, and you're speaking the SAME language, but it still varies a little.
even in america the language varies for example:
sub, grinder, hero, hoagie, Italian sandwich, po' boy, wedge, zep, and torpedo are all the same thing but if you ask me where you can get a grinder i'll be like go back to new england and i'll add in some curse words
same with pop, soda pop, soda, cola, and coke all the same thing but depending on where you are if you say the wrong one then no one will know what your talking about
America is the metling pot of the world. When you invite itie's, slavs, dutch, gerries and micks into the country then the language is gonna suffer a bit and when you invite them into the same city like Pittsburgh then the language is gonna suffer a whole lot.
First, I'd raise issue with the claim that America is the melting pot of the world, given that in the majority of the places it becomes an artificial black/white dichotomy anyway.
I could turn it all back on you and ask why to you call cookies biscuits?
No no, you got it all wrong. Why do you call biscuits cookies? :P
