How and why is the American version of English have so many differences compared to English as it is in England?

Answer 1

The new settlers to the new world had to come up with new words to describe their New World, and this increased as they moved inland. This was achieved by borrowing words from others who inhabited or explored the continent. From the Dutch we took landscape, cookie, and caboose. We also may have taken Yankee as a corruption of the Dutch Jan Kees. Often new settlers borrowed Native American terns. As Mary Helen Dohan notes in her book on American English OUR OWN WORDS a early translator of The Bible had to think of the word Kummogkodonattootummooetiteaonganunnonash for the phase "our question." The English sounding hickory was taken out of the Indian pawcohiccra,ragraoughcun was made into raccoon and isquonterquashes into squash. Hoochinoo, the name of a tribe who made great homemade liquor became hooch.

From early Spanish we took more than 500 words. Among them are rodeo, bronco, buffalo, avocado, mustang, burro, fiesta, coyote, mesquite, canyon, and buckaroo. The French gave us names for Indian tribes, rivers, and other geographical features. Sometimes words came in improbable way. The American dollar is a corruption of Joachimthaler named for a 16th century silver mine in Germany. The first recorded use of the word was in 1553 and was spelled daler. It's first use in America is not noted until 1782. Besides borrowing words the settlers came up with new ones like bullfrog, eggplant, grasshopper, rattlesnake, mockingbird, and catfish. Words also took on new meanings between England and America. So, beech, walnut, laurel, partridge, robin, oriole, hemlock, and pond mean two different things depending on where.

Settlers moving west not only had to come up with words to describe the out sized new world, but also needed new words to reflect their zestful, wildcat wassailing hell for leather approach to life. These were colorful and some are still in use. Of all the new words that is truly American it is the word OK. Although the residents of the New World began to use new words in new ways historians aren't sure when they began to pronounce them in a truly American way. No one can say when the first accent arose that was "American"

Answer 2

The differences between American English and British English stem from historical factors such as colonization, Immigration, and linguistic evolution. American English has been influenced by various languages like Native American languages, Spanish, and other immigrant languages, resulting in unique vocabulary and pronunciation differences. Additionally, differences in spelling and grammar were formalized due to the development of American dictionaries and style guides.