Not everything about the way language evolves makes sense, bro. I know that I for one get confused when people refer to soccer as football. When I'm talking with people from other countries though, I try to use it anyways. It's all about communication and it doesn't matter which came first.

I can’t say it never bugs me when Brits add a superfluous “u” after every “o”, but live and let live.

Keep in mind, this isn’t the wiki. This is just a discussion board. It’s been ages since I edited the wiki with any regularity, but back when I did I would follow the wiki’s style and use Philosophers and throw “u”s all over the place. But that is not required or necessary on the discussion board.

You know football wasn’t invented by the Brits, right?

I’m not really a sport guy, so I may be wrong, but I believe that football has historically been used as a name for several different sports before it became primarily associated with American Football and football.

I'm going to try and not lose my crap with soccer being repeated over and over again, but here we go.

I'm rather a fan of football, not that I've watched it recently, but I don't know it's history, however I do know that we gave you americans your language, as seen here:

American guy just cant understand that british people invented english but americans act like they own it.... like girl no lmao

Um, it doesn't matter what came first? Cavemen came before everyone. Does that mean we're going to start talking like cavemen?

You didn’t give us the language. Actually, a lot of countries only speak English because you conquered them and forced it onto them, but no need to get into that. The US was formed by British colonists, who obviously spoke English. The US actually doesn’t have an official language though, because we (theoretically) welcome all people and ways of speaking.

I can’t say it never bugs me when Brits add a superfluous “u” after every “o”, but live and let live.

You were the ones who came and removed it, just saying. And plus, we get to write more and it looks neater, don't you agree? And it isn't useless, because if you've heard a British person speak, you'll hear we actually pronounce the 'ou' and not the 'o' like you americans do. With your accents, it'd sound weird if you tried to do the 'ou' thing, but it'd sound weird with our accents if we tried to do the 'o' on it's own thing. It's hard to explain, but there's someone out there who'll understand what I'm saying.

I also just need to say how annoyed this comment made me.

I’m not a linguist, so I might be wrong, but I believe that there were not formal spelling rules yet when our nations split. Back in the day, people just spelled things in whatever way looked best. Once spelling became more formalized, the Brits stuck “u”s all over the place and the Americans didn’t.

a lot of countries only speak English because you conquered them and forced it onto them

I mean, thanks for spoiling my history lessons ig. I mean, not like I was looking forward to them or anything smh.

I totally understand you about the "ou" thing. But as far as Britain giving us the language, did you read what I said about cave men?

You should know your own history. Particularly your own nation’s bloody history of conquest and oppression. Not that I’m judging. American history is pretty ugly too.