egotrippin
Senior Member
While I'm not an English major, I believe our language is so archaic and all over the map is due to its evolution from many languages. If you look at the evolution of English, our words are derived from ancient Greek, Roman, French, and so on. Also, I believe the many words ending in -re were originally spelled like that, rather it was the Americans changing it to -er as if to say 'see, we're not British'. Same thing goes for the extra 'u' in many -our words.