Color/Colour

[Smoozle]

Normal people spell colour exactly like that! With an added "u". Is it only the Americans that spell it without? My Browser picked up colour as being wrong. I guess it's American.

I understand it being spelled "Color" for pronounciation-(spelling?) purposes, but if you were going to pronounce it the way it was spelled surely "cula" would be more appropriate?

I very much dislike the spelling as "color" and Gaia doesn't help with its Americanised BBcode!

(Sorry for the big rant, I'm tired and needed a big rant about something!)  

[splashseal]

I second that! Color is American, while I know that colour is at least used in the U.K. (I'm not sure about other anglophone places), and I know there are some other words that suffer the same fate. I prefer colour as well, and it's annoying when Microsoft wants to change it.  

[Galadedrid Damodred]

It's the same with honor/honour, armor/armour, labor/labour...  

[Starting Once Again]

This debate tends to annoy me to no end. I'm American, and I spell the word color. British people have every right to spell it colour, but I don't see as they can claim it to be more "correct" than our spelling. As far as I'm concerned, both spellings are acceptable, and that's the way it should stay.

EDIT: Same goes for the s/z debate.  

[Niccea Majeare]

We studied this in school. All this derived from the American Revolution. The Americans wanted to separate themselves as far from the Brits as possible. So, when the the first Webster's American Dictionary came out, they changed the spelling of the "our" words. I think it was because they found the "u" superfluous to the spelling.

Smoozle

I understand it being spelled "Color" for pronounciation-(spelling?) purposes, but if you were going to pronounce it the way it was spelled surely "cula" would be more appropriate?

We don't pronounce it "cula" (unless we speak in Ebonics) We pronounce it or at least I do. Ca-ler  

[Aubrey Nicole]

tree of meh

This debate tends to annoy me to no end. I'm American, and I spell the word color. British people have every right to spell it colour, but I don't see as they can claim it to be more "correct" than our spelling. As far as I'm concerned, both spellings are acceptable, and that's the way it should stay.

EDIT: Same goes for the s/z debate.

I agree completely.  

[Masamune no Hi]

Niccea Majeare

We studied this in school. All this derived from the American Revolution. The Americans wanted to separate themselves as far from the Brits as possible. So, when the the first Webster's American Dictionary came out, they changed the spelling of the "our" words. I think it was because they found the "u" superfluous to the spelling.

Smoozle

I understand it being spelled "Color" for pronounciation-(spelling?) purposes, but if you were going to pronounce it the way it was spelled surely "cula" would be more appropriate?

We don't pronounce it "cula" (unless we speak in Ebonics) We pronounce it or at least I do. Ca-ler

Thank you! Please don't think your spelling is better than mine. I have heard English classified as American English and English. (Not English English, that sounds weird.) I live in america and spell it color, becuase that is how I was tuaght to spell it.  

[Niccea Majeare]

Masamune no Hi

Niccea Majeare

We studied this in school. All this derived from the American Revolution. The Americans wanted to separate themselves as far from the Brits as possible. So, when the the first Webster's American Dictionary came out, they changed the spelling of the "our" words. I think it was because they found the "u" superfluous to the spelling.

Smoozle

I understand it being spelled "Color" for pronounciation-(spelling?) purposes, but if you were going to pronounce it the way it was spelled surely "cula" would be more appropriate?

We don't pronounce it "cula" (unless we speak in Ebonics) We pronounce it or at least I do. Ca-ler

Thank you! Please don't think your spelling is better than mine. I have heard English classified as American English and English. (Not English English, that sounds weird.) I live in america and spell it color, becuase that is how I was tuaght to spell it.

I'm Texan I have a whole other way of pronouncing things.  

[Ame Yuki Kaze]

When it comes to sheer numbers and the age of the language, you are correct. British English is of course, much older than American English. Our way of spelling those words is the simplified (read: dumbed down) way.

As for Firefox and Word, I'm pretty certain both have alternative dictionaries for British, Canadian and Australian English available for download. I'd check out Mozilla.com because I know I saw other dictionaries available for download.

Addendum: You can get the British version of Firefox here. Just scroll down till you come to "English".  

[Smoozle]

I wonder why everyone instantly thought I was British?

I'M NOT BRITISH!!

OK, we may use the English language but that doesn't make me British! It also annoys me that if I imply I'm not American you automatically assume that I'm: British or in some cases Australian... (Someone thought I was an Eskimo stare ) Has NOBODY heard of New Zealand?  

[limp dick]

Honestly, it doesn't bother me much.
It's seems to me that the lone vowel doesn't really make a difference.

I do admit that us, Americans, have done away with a lot of the formality of the English language, but we can't help it.

We're annoying that way.  

[Smoozle]

limp d**k

We're annoying that way.

I'll say!  

[Masamune no Hi]

I never said you were British. We just said that British English is different from American English. And of course I've heard of New Zealand. I've been through Elementary school.  

[Luxx Aeternam]

I've found myself typing colour on more than one occassion. Well, actually it was "armour," and on one occassion, "honour," but it's the same concept. We Americans seem to shaft the letter "U" for some reason.  

[[ Pyrite ]]

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I'm just going to speak up for the Canadians here and say that we also spell it "Colour". American English is pretty ********, in my opinion.

Don't worry Smoozle, I know you're not from England. You're Australian right? mrgreen

*Ducks and runs for cover.*

~Pyrite
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