Non of those were allies or they were but weren't involved in the war apart from FR and GB when war broke out. Those were the alliances when it finished.

From language to country alliances. Wow, this thread got derailed

the enemy of my enemy is by no means my friend...

Languages are not invented. They are evolved. Actually it is very similar to the evolution of life. Languages share a common ancestor that may or may not be extinct and differentiate due to regions. Both dialects are just as valid as the other, and if left alone they will form new languages.  Also American Standard English is much closer to the Early Modern English than British Standard English is. The main difference that American and British english have is the pronounciation of the consanant "R" and the stress on constanants vs vowels. BSE(British Standard English) focuses more on stressing vowels while ASE focuses more on stressing constanants. American English also 'fully" prounounces the constantants "R" when it isn't combined with another constanant and "H" at the beginning of a word. Both of these features, the major difference between BSE and AME, are common in Early Modern English. Basically shakespare would have pronounced the "R" in his name despite being English. It is a general rule actually, that the farther you leave from the source of the language the slower it changes. The same thing could be explained for American Spanish vs European Spanish, and Canadian, African French vs European French. As for spelling, it wasn't until the 1500s until spelling started to have standard rules. Because of this, I discount any official spelling differences in dialects as being "correct". So the old "English invented the language" isn't only wrong, but actually much farther from the truth. There is a point in time actually where almost every european language was the same. This language was called Indo European, and more commonly reffered to as "Aryan."

lol quine = girl. but only the Aberdonians say that, really.

everywhere else says lassie or "burd".

i called Americans lazy! just like they call Scots people "funny weird and drunk all the time".. but it was all in good jest. i really like this thread.

No, the Irish are the ones who people say are drunk all the time. Scots are loud, violent and eat nothing but haggis.

Did you say you liked Black Pudding or Haggis? I can't remember.

And with Aryan we get onto the Aryan race which brings us back to Alliances

I love the Irish, there always so happy and friendly

Hmm... well, I have a stance that's not widely accepted, but I think it would end the argument should it happen. English as a language is dead. It was in use back in Shakespeare's days. It has morphed enough from this in both the UK and the US, that to me, the language spoken here is American, and over there is British. It recognizes that both have their different subtleties, especially on the different words. (Like, what is this 'loo' thing?)

But metric, yeah, I wish we would switch over to it. As someone who's versed in both systems, I so much prefer the metric system, since it's always 10 units to the next unit. (Even if you pretty much never hear the word decagram.) Versus having to remember 16 ounces to the pound (and 2000 lb to the ton), or 16 ounces to a pint (and 8 pints to the gallon). But... a pound isn't a pint, either! Damned fluid ounces versus weight ounces!

Germany and Japan were allies at the start of the war. In fact, the alliance between the UK and US was mainly due to their enemies being allied.