posted on Apr, 11 2022 @ 05:36 PM
a reply to:
DISRAELI
It's language change in action.
I would never have believed that a word I used frequently in my youth for a certain sport has fallen out of use in my own country but is the preferred
word in another country, America.
The issue is synonyms, and English is littered with them. It's inevitable that one English-speaking country will prefer one word and another country
will prefer a different word but it's the same thing they are referring to.
What, for instance, do we call the third season of the year?
Autumn or fall?
Answer: both are correct, just synonyms for the same thing.
So we delve into history.
Autumn is thought to be slightly older, appearing in the 1300s, with the word fall first appearing around the 1500s in reference to leaves falling off
trees.
The English who colonised America did so when 'fall' was popular which is probably why modern day Americans say 'fall'.
It's all fashion and fad. The mystery why some words are popular one minute and not the next. And why they are popular here but fall out of use there.