American English

I have often wondered who defined American English rhetoric and how they did it. Having read William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White’s little book titled The Elements of Style I am beginning to see how it is done. Language has fluid nature and is constantly in a state of evolution. We are constantly transforming our language in our quest to better transfer information by creating new words, dropping words from our vocabulary and even changing the mean of previously defined words. With the number users reaching upward to 250 million it would seem impossible for such a large group to come to an agreement on how to use this product. We don’t of course but through the influence of style guides like The Elements of Style we are able to stay on the same page enough to understand one anther.