Language .. American English or our English?

[Ela James]

Prove what? That modern America didn't exist in c.1300 other than the presence of Vikings or Chinese as traders. How can it play a part in its etymology?

 

savior (n.)

c. 1300, "one who delivers or rescues from peril," also a title of Jesus Christ, from Old French sauveour, from Late Latin salvatorem (nominative salvator) "a saver, preserver" (source also of Spanish salvador, Italian salvatore), from salvatus, past participle of salvare "to save" (see save (verb.)). In Christian sense, a translation of Greek soter "savior." Replaced Old English hælend, literally "healing," noun use of present participle of hælan (see heal).

 

clever answer, thanks

[RonJeremy]

It's American English, our version is saviour.

 

The French "savoir" has a different word order and is the verb "to know".

 

Je sais ca.

[Margarita Ma]

Savoir, French as Ron Jeremy stated. Savior, American(they tend to leave out the u that we English put in). Saviour English We have lots of foreign words in our language that have tended to be corrupted in English use over the centuries. But it makes our English language one of the richest in the world.

[Ela James]

it seems we all almost are correct

[apelike]

Savoir, French as Ron Jeremy stated. Savior, American(they tend to leave out the u that we English put in). Saviour English We have lots of foreign words in our language that have tended to be corrupted in English use over the centuries. But it makes our English language one of the richest in the world.

 

In a lot of cases with American spelling they did not leave out the U as it was not part of the English spelling at the time that the Pilgrim Fathers went to the US. A lot of words were later corrupted by a French influence which uses U a lot.

[RonJeremy]

In a lot of cases with American spelling they did not leave out the U as it was not part of the English spelling at the time that the Pilgrim Fathers went to the US. A lot of words were later corrupted by a French influence which uses U a lot.

 

Bleedin French. Coming over here. Corrupting our spelling. Putins. It's like deja vue all over again.

[blake]

there is actually very little difference between the native English speaking dialects in places like the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Or even South Africa. Just little quirks really. The dialects are just as valid as each other. Only a complete cretin would argue that the British dialect is in some way superior to the others.