Either or. I'm american, so I know it as "color", but for some reason "colour" just feels right.
Poll: Colour or Color?
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Color, unless you want to be an elitist who uses archaic spelling and drinks tea out of tiny cups with their pinky finger sticking out.
I mean, come on! The 'u' in 'colour' is silent anyway. If 'colour' was pronounced 'col-ur' instead of 'col-or' then you might have a point. Either that or this debate would be whether or not the spelling should be 'colour' or 'colur'.
Hell, even Firefox's spell-checker disagrees with you; every instance of 'colour' I have in the reply editor is marked as a spelling error. I guess that's because I got the American English version instead of the British or Australian English version, but still.
I mean, come on! The 'u' in 'colour' is silent anyway. If 'colour' was pronounced 'col-ur' instead of 'col-or' then you might have a point. Either that or this debate would be whether or not the spelling should be 'colour' or 'colur'.
Hell, even Firefox's spell-checker disagrees with you; every instance of 'colour' I have in the reply editor is marked as a spelling error. I guess that's because I got the American English version instead of the British or Australian English version, but still.
Color. If that's what it said on the Crayon box when I was six, that's how it should be spelled.
i have to say it... americans, the only people who couldn't translate english to english without spelling errors
ot: it's colour
ot: it's colour
The history of English is very long and the influences on English are very many. The changes done for American English are part of that continuum. Will they affect English as a whole? Well they already are. The American Billion and Trillion, though both incongruous, is now the world wide accepted definition of Billion. A lot of American words, slang and expressions are also used world wide, but so are Australian, South African, British, Canadian, etc words. In the end, English as a whole is a group effort.CORRODED SIN said:
Anyway, the 'extra letters' can indicate a few things. They certainly always show the history of a word. They can show how pronunciation has changed though the spelling has stayed the same. They can show corruptions in original translations. They can show stylist trends at different times in English's history. What people rarely notice are the MISSING letters. For example, 'an apron' was originally 'a napron'. There are many examples like this.
Augh! We've been betrayed! Purge the heretic! .... I kid, I kidno oneder said:Hey fellow canadian!NoblePhilistineFox said:
Sorry to ruin it but I spell it color
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Back on track, colour. Its natural for me to spell it that way so I do.
For the Brits: Colour
For the Canadians: Colour
For the Americans: Color
For the French-Canadians: Coulour
Whenever words are spelled differently in America and Britain, the Canadian policy is basically flip a coin; both sides win. If someone ever corrects you on that tiny and immaterial difference then you have encountered my grade 12 english teacher and should flee for your life.
As for the French-Canadians (or at least those I have met), they often spell the word the way it is spelled in the french language (as to whether this is a pride thing or just a spelling error, your guess is as good as mine).
For the Canadians: Colour
For the Americans: Color
For the French-Canadians: Coulour
Whenever words are spelled differently in America and Britain, the Canadian policy is basically flip a coin; both sides win. If someone ever corrects you on that tiny and immaterial difference then you have encountered my grade 12 english teacher and should flee for your life.
As for the French-Canadians (or at least those I have met), they often spell the word the way it is spelled in the french language (as to whether this is a pride thing or just a spelling error, your guess is as good as mine).
I'm not consecuent on that. If i'm chatting or posting in forums then it's "color" and if i'm writing a story, an article etc in school then i use "Colour" and a big "I"
Does it really matter which way we spell it? Color, colour, in the end it's same shit. The same shit. Although, my spell check says colour is wrong, but what do they know?
