Why do Americans pronounce centaurs "centars"???


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In the Treaty of Washington (1871), Great Britain ceded the word centaur to the United States as an act of contrition for allowing Confederate war ships to use Liverpool as a port to launch raids against Union forces. The United States in turn agreed to the water border between the state of Washington and British Columbia as the Crown desired.
 



We do it because we can. We love mispronouncing words from other cultures, just because we know the rest of the world will eventually say it our way, and we get a kick out of how irate that makes some people.

If you're ever in the states on an American ISP you'll discover that we have a whole private Internet just for coordinating our mispronunciations.
 



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