You seem to be under the impression the English language is some kind of unchanging galactic constant from which American English has deviated, when it’s actually a language undergoing constant evolution; a mongrel of a language influenced by Anglo-Saxon, Latin, Norman-French and countless others. In fact the changing nature of language is basically a pre-requisite to it’s existence. If words that “came from” another word never changed, then language would be unable to develop and we’d all just be grunting and gesturing. All that said, arse is a fantastic word.



