Poll: Colour or Color?

[imaloony]

We spell it "Color"... IN AMERICA!

 

[JBGigas]

Does it matter? Although I would love to see "Gameboy Charizard"

 

[Nannernade]

I've always spelled it as colour even though it's apparently "wrong" according to my laptop as I type this message, who cares what my laptop thinks though. =P

 

[AVATAR_RAGE]

I'm English, and over here we also spell it "Colour".

ditto

 

[RMcD94]

I was going to make a thread with this poll.

I use colour.

Question: To those of you who use USAmericanised English, please explain to me the reasoning behind removing u from colour, o from foetus, etc.

 

[Dr. wonderful]

I use both to be honest..in the same sentence.

 

[assassinslover]

Question: To those of you who use USAmericanised English, please explain to me the reasoning behind removing u from colour, o from foetus, etc.

I honestly don't know. Same reason we call "football" "soccer", I suppose, which also confuses my friends since I say "football". xD

Despite being American and generally getting made fun of whenever I include "u" in words that typically don't have them in "American" English, I spell it "colour." I have no idea why.

 

[Lawyer105]

It's spelt "colour". The American's are just too lazy to write out all the letters!

 

[emeraldrafael]

Its more of a region thing. Like um... Countries like great britain, and canada, spell things different. Words like color and honor in the United States are spelled with the -or. not the -our. There's also a difference in how they spell theater. in the US its -er in UK/Can is -re.

its really preference and region. At least, thats how my english teacher explained it to me.

 

[imnot]

I'm English so spell it colour. It's only a little u to add you lazy gits!

HIGH FIVE, its like ass and arse. so yes i say colour.

 

[Woodsey]

Colour - I'm British.

 

[EightGaugeHippo]

Im English and I spell it correct.

 

[Lord Mountbatten Reborn]

Colour of course. But I don't think anyone would expect any different from a username like "Lord Mountbatten Reborn". It reminds me of Medal of Honor; I used to think that this was a completely different meaning to "Honour" because the "U" was missing, or that it was named that to give the medal more distinction.

 

[Anomynous 167]

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.

Problem:
It IS pronounced "Col-ur". So your statement is voidish.

 

[icyneesan]

Colour or Color it doesn't really matter... but now I have a urge to switch it to Charizard

 

[AvsJoe]

In Canada we include the u's much to the chagrin of Americans and their spell check. Like colour and neighbour.

 

[Freshman]

As an USA-ian i always spelled it "color" until i started playing 40K, and then i adopted a lot of english english spellings for things, "colour" and "armour" the ones i can think of off the top of my head

 

[Betancore]

Being Australian, I spell it 'colour.' Stupid Google Chrome and its red squiggly lines, I did not spell it incorrectly.

 

[jpoon]

Not sure why you feel the need to jam a 'u' in there when it seems unnecessary. It's your call though but I'll just stick with "color".

 

[King of the N00bs]

colour is a nice,fancy way to say it..... so colour