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Why do you insist on Americanism when the English language has rules?

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supersnipe · 61-69, M
English effectively 'belongs' to everyone who uses it. The English - or should I say the British - themselves have a version of it (distinguished by spellings formalised by Johnson) and so does the US (who use Webster's spellings, which were formalised rather later). On top of this there are, around the world, lots of different versions and sub-versions of it. This happens to other languages too, which have produced various 'pidgins' and 'creoles' some of which have enough distingishing features to become languages in their own right.

There is an Americanism that I'm quite fond of, and that is: 'It's not that big of a deal!'