Your taxes doubled in the last eight years ? What county are you from ? It isn ' t the US . <| sep |> I don ' t say that for most people , but for the ones i do , they kinda act like i ' m wasting my time , that i could do something better with that time . Feelsbadman <| sep |> Every time you call it an addition you ' re grasping at a straw . I don ' t associate meat with masculinity . I ' m not addicted to it . But I like eating it and will continue to do so . What am I ? A normal human being <| sep |> I won ' t have the full answer but can hopefully get you started in the right direction . When the Pilgrims came over there were few of them compared to those still in England . Fewer people means the language changes slower . Over time , English in England changes while in America it either doesn ' t or changes very slowly . So you may be approaching your question backwards . Instead of searching for how American English changed maybe search for how it didn ' t change . I will also add that by Noah Webster ' s time , 1820 ' s , Americans felt the English they spoke was different enough than what was used in England to warrant calling it American English and making a dictionary to reflect this idea . Now , that doesn ' t mean America English changed more than British English only that there was a change .