Our anxiety over Americanisms is based on false assumptions of what is 'theirs' and 'ours' 🗣️ From 'fall' to 'wow', many so-called Americanisms began in British English 🔵 susie_dent
Take American spelling, with its “aluminum”, “honor”, “color”, and “center”, all taken as proof that Americans drop their vowels willy-nilly. And yet the very versions that provoke such horror amongst Wordle lovers were common in British English long before the Pilgrim Fathers set sail. If you search Shakespeare’s First Folio, for example, you’ll find that “honor” outscores “honour” by a 100-1, just as “humor” surpasses “humour” and “center” trounces “centre” with ease.
Our vocabulary bears similar footprints. The season of mellow fruitfulness was originally known in British English not just as “Harvest” but also “Fall” – short for “the fall of the leaf” – just as Spring is short for the “spring of the leaf”. It was only when the Norman Conquerors exerted their power upon our language as well as our lands that we decided “autumn”, from the French.
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