Poll: Colour or Color?
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The spell it "color" down south, but up here in Canada, as you said, it's "colour". Firefox's spell check doesn't even say otherwise, since I have the Canadian English Dictionary add-on ('cause UK English just isn't good enough for the truly patriotic).
Depends, if I am using it in a phrase I made myself:
"My favourite colour is blue... NO GREEN!"
Then I'd use a "u" as that's the way it is spelt in the UK and as a UK citizen I should continue to use that spelling.
But if a quote or movie title used the US spelling:
"Color Purple"
Then I would not alter the spelling to "colour" if I repeated the title. It is an American name, quote or title therefore it should keep the American spelling. I expect the same in return for British titles and so on.
So: "I am anticipating the new game from EA; 'Medal of Honor', though I wonder how much the game really has to do with medals or Honour"
I think we can ALL learn a lot from the likes of Mark Twain and William Shakespeare who never cared much about the semantics of spelling and would both often make up new spellings as they saw fit. I don't give a damn... I spell colour with a U out of force of habit but I respect other spellings in other English speaking countries.
"My favourite colour is blue... NO GREEN!"
Then I'd use a "u" as that's the way it is spelt in the UK and as a UK citizen I should continue to use that spelling.
But if a quote or movie title used the US spelling:
"Color Purple"
Then I would not alter the spelling to "colour" if I repeated the title. It is an American name, quote or title therefore it should keep the American spelling. I expect the same in return for British titles and so on.
So: "I am anticipating the new game from EA; 'Medal of Honor', though I wonder how much the game really has to do with medals or Honour"
I think we can ALL learn a lot from the likes of Mark Twain and William Shakespeare who never cared much about the semantics of spelling and would both often make up new spellings as they saw fit. I don't give a damn... I spell colour with a U out of force of habit but I respect other spellings in other English speaking countries.
didnt realy ever bother me and i used to have like 90 charizards in those crappy pokemon cards...
I spell it as colour. Although I guess it's because I was raised in N.Ireland and was taught to spell it that way during my school days.
In Australia we spell it 'colour'. Though, in Australia we speak a very bastardised form of their language, or so say my English mates.Gerrawn said:
You guessed wrong.NoblePhilistineFox said:
Also, it really doesn't matter how you spell a word. There is no "proper" way to spell anything, it is just implicitly decided by the society. As I foresee it, slang words like "dat" "dis" "wen" "lol" will become accepted part of the English language, and they will be slangs no more.
255?!?!Eqan Asif said:
wow...
charizard also ot alot of picks.
I like how you explained that, thats somthing ive been trying to tell people but could never find the words.
there is no such thing except what is explained to you, and that becomes the truth to them.
and I really hope those words dont become part of the english language, I want to cut people whenever they say that T_T.
