The Mother Country is regaining somewhat of a linguistic foothold in the former North American colonies: blacktop in many cases is now called "tarmac" here (mainly at airports, er, i mean aerodromes.):->

The real backstory of the American Revolution is that London & the colonies couldn't agree on what to call an English muffin.

Patrick Henry's actual fighting words were, "Give me muffins or give me death!" This was altered for propaganda purposes.

What was dumped into Boston Harbor by the Sons of Liberty was not tea but fairy cakes. They considered the term to cast aspersions on colonial manhood.