Semester:
a half-year term in a school or college, typically lasting fifteen to eighteen weeks
Sem is derived from semi, which means half.
Thus there are two semesters.
If you have three terms, those terms are called trimesters.
I may be American but I also happen to know English.
English words are derived from Latin. And the latin root word for semester is half. Therefore, in this scenario, British English is more incorrect than American English, because it retardedly uses a word that quite literally means 'half year term' to describe a third of a year term. In this specific scenario, American English provides the correct option. Thus, your statement that American English is and always will be wrong, is and always will be wrong. Of course, if you are mentally deficient enough to believe that LATIN is wrong, you are completely irredeemable and are destined for failure due to your insane level of stubbornness.
Not only that, you are currently in a website with a majority of American English speakers. Thus, EVEN IF Latin did not exist at all, and EVEN IF the British misuse of the word semester was somehow 'correct' due to it being an older convention, you would still be a minority and thus your (incorrect at times) dialect would not be favored by most of the people here. I understand that the Brits are desperate to cling to SOMETHING that makes them superior to Americans (which is something really hard to do nowadays), but they are in no way godly nor infallible.
Yecharon... America has the most English speakers. If anything Brits speak it wrongly, if you can define a dialect as being wrong, because Brits make up such a small minority of English speakers
No they weren't. I'm not related to any colonists. My parents came to American from another country. Anyway, Latin came before any form of modern English. The word semester has Latin roots. The Latin root of the word semester means half. Half implies that there are two semesters. Trimester's root means three. That is why there are three trimesters. You are in the wrong. Completely and utterly in the wrong.
In South Africa the academic year starts in February so that is why I am still on my first semester.
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Not really. College is pretty easy as long as you get shit turned in, sure I usually do it last minute but my bullshit proficiency is so up there that I can do a months worth of work in a night and still get a decent grade
Problem being smart and lazy was never having to study, just pay attention, and never had homework because you were able to blaze through it. I remember my first year of actual college classes and not just introductory ones was hard as fuck. I fucked up big time and took several years off to work and mature because I just couldn't handle it.
a half-year term in a school or college, typically lasting fifteen to eighteen weeks
Sem is derived from semi, which means half.
Thus there are two semesters.
If you have three terms, those terms are called trimesters.
I may be American but I also happen to know English.