U.S. U.K. trolley tram gas(oline) petrol hood bonnet (car) baby carriage pram buddy mate cop copper (police) There are many more. How did this evolve?
When populations don't really mix with each other (e.g. due to a vast body of water between them and no quick/easy method of traversing) there is no competition between the terms adopted by each geography. So no "fight for survival" of those terms. That'd be my guess. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Or maybe the Yanks just can't talk proper? https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p09fv1w9/why-us-english-is-a-history-lesson-for-the-british
Or drive on the correct side of the road Or use metric system Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
They come late if they don't start them Want help in the ones they start Loose all of those Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
We can spell though. It's "lose" Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! We come in "late" because they were your wars. We have to give you time to win (fail). There haven't been any U.S. wars since WWII. We've been involved in a few "conflicts" since then and although we could win them the cost in human casualties would be too high. We shouldn't have been in any of them of course but we both know that if there was a legitimate reason to win them we could but there would be little of the original country left. We decided to leave a bit of Iraq and Afghanistan standing and now even Vietnam is largely capitalist in fact if not in name. We "protect" most every developed country so they don't have to spend much on their military budget and when they "help" it's always from the rear because they don't really have any modern systems Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
It's typo Came in late because became your war with Pearl Harbour (fail) - was not going to happen Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Language is continually changing. Language is changed primarily by young people, todays slang is tomorrows proper language.
