If Americans call an aeroplane an airplane, why aren't the American rock band Aerosmith called Airsmith?

@Xuan12 We say "levtenant" actually.

@Gumba1000 Ah, wishing you were still Roman, eh?

@Xuan12 Nah, they never achieved as much as us.

@Gumba1000 I just think it's funny how the British sometimes tout their version as the proper version, perhaps not even aware of all the mutations it has undergone, even in relatively recent times. Add to that, that English is the only major language I know of without a formal language authority, and the idea of "proper" English seems like a satire.

@Xuan12 No, too busy pandering to the minor languages of the Isles. Maybe this is one occasion where governance isn't arrogant enough to presume dominance a cross the world. Though its easy to see why we should believe our English as proper, our country is its birthplace.

@Gumba1000 Kind of. I mean, it's a Celtic, German, French/Latin hybrid. You could say it was born there, or invaded into there repeatedly during antiquity and the middle ages.

@Xuan12 No, we aren't playing the ancestors game. If we start playing that, all languages are African. English is the combination of many influences and the language of English is the combination, not its component parts. The Celts are part of the ancestoral English by the way.

@Gumba1000 Yes, I know of the Celts. It's still interesting though. Few languages I know of mutate so quickly.

@Xuan12 English is so widely spoken and used in many ways. I think it has the most words in any language. In Britain we have many different dialects and accents. Some almost a language in themselves. Add all the other English speaking countries and their dialects etc, and English is expanded even more. Its a very varied and colourful language, beautiful in nature.

@Gumba1000 That's part of it. Even in the UK, a relative contained area, there are so many variation. And the way people speak it over time is changing rapidly as well. Do you even know what "on fleek" means? It's slang of course, but slang is the precursor to more substantial changes.

@NosmoKing Apparently it's how chavs say they look good. XD

@Xuan12 Chavs' English is worse than patois.