The "u" in non-american english

[Lord Flashheart]

Senlis said:

Lord Flashheart said:

Yes it's an evolution of different languages foreign and regional but to simplify it as the first to use it is nonsense.

How could we be the fir st to use it if it didn't exist. It was created by the English using what was around and standardised over time to form what we use today.

It was created on English shores hence the name of the Language is English. Someone didn't spot it sticking out of the ground when out looking for buried Saxon gold and decided to use it.

Most languages are formed the same way but no-one nit picks over them like they do with English.

What I am saying is that the English people didn't just suddenly invent English like the wheel was invented.  It wasn't like some guy said "now we are going to call this a 'house' as opposed to what we were calling it yesterday".  People just talked to each other, and as time went on the languages changed.  That is how the U.K. was eventually speaking English.

Still invented by the English. Whether intentionally or not. Suddenly or over time. Lots of things have been invented those ways we don't dispute that just who the inventor was.

Do you say the same thing when someone says the Spanish invented Spanish?
There was a need to sit down and invent a standard Language in England due to each area having it's own dialect and even language so people all over the country could trade and travel so in that regards and well every other the English invented English.

I think you're being deliberately pedantic and nit picking and it doesn't aplly here.