Why do Americans spell it 'Enterprise'?

[RabidMongoose]

I wouldn't be surprised if the British were influenced by French, but the Americans retained more older spelling that wasn't influenced by French.

 

[WelshBloke]

I'll make you a deal... stop spelling math as 'maths' and color as 'colour', then I'll start telling my fellow Americans to use the Z.

Do you say "I'm really good at mathematics" or "I'm really good at mathematic"?

 

[Stuxnet]

Do you say "I'm really good at mathematics" or "I'm really good at mathematic"?

I say we go with "matheumaticres"

Do you say "cent-er" or "cent-ra"?

"shop" or "shop-pee"?

 

[Fritzo]

It sounds exactly like how the word is pronounced... with a z.

Nobody says enter-preese. It is pronounced enter-prize.

If that were the case, it would be "Enter-priz-E", which sounds even more gay.

 

[Perknose]

Because "Enter-prize" sounds too much like an invitation to try out the latex vagina you just won in an adult store Grand Opening raffle . . . or something.

Grand Opening . . . get it?

 

[LiuKangBakinPie]

Because Captain Kirk said so.

 

[sixone]

Also DI-rection, IR-regardless, and to AX a question.

And ASS-essory.