As a Canadian, we are brought up using the non-American spellings for the most part. We don't use the British ones entirely either though. We have a bit of a hybrid system, I suppose, as well as our own variations and terms. I'm not going to say it bothers me to see the use of the American ones, but I'd rather not. It is hit and miss, however. Some words, like jail for example, make more sense than gaol (if that is even used anymore).
English is a diverse language and its many regions have their own ways of expressing it. I don't mind the diversity when it comes to American spelling vs British spelling vs Canadian spelling vs Australian spellings (I'm not even sure Australian is English sometimes..), because at the very least they are all correct-to-someone ways of using the words.
For me personally, however, when it comes to words like honour, armour that should have the u, I use the u. I use jewellery not jewelry and grey is spelled with an e (though with that both are correct anyway). I have, I guess you could say, a bit of a lack of respect for the alternate spellings mostly because of their absurd origins in the newspaper industry. In a way it would be as if text words now because the official "this is actually correct" spellings. Imagine, as a teacher, having to grade papers where students use words such as "u (you)" "r (are/our)", "g2g (I have got to go)" and being unable to mark them as wrong because they are accepted alternate spellings. Granted, the newspaper variations were to save costs on superfluous letters whereas text speech stems from a lack of character space and increasing laziness on behalf of the users. That being said I am getting off topic, and I apologize.
English is a diverse language and its many regions have their own ways of expressing it. I don't mind the diversity when it comes to American spelling vs British spelling vs Canadian spelling vs Australian spellings (I'm not even sure Australian is English sometimes..), because at the very least they are all correct-to-someone ways of using the words.
For me personally, however, when it comes to words like honour, armour that should have the u, I use the u. I use jewellery not jewelry and grey is spelled with an e (though with that both are correct anyway). I have, I guess you could say, a bit of a lack of respect for the alternate spellings mostly because of their absurd origins in the newspaper industry. In a way it would be as if text words now because the official "this is actually correct" spellings. Imagine, as a teacher, having to grade papers where students use words such as "u (you)" "r (are/our)", "g2g (I have got to go)" and being unable to mark them as wrong because they are accepted alternate spellings. Granted, the newspaper variations were to save costs on superfluous letters whereas text speech stems from a lack of character space and increasing laziness on behalf of the users. That being said I am getting off topic, and I apologize.
