Poll: Colour or Color?

[Azrac]

Colour or you're a tosser.

Color or yer a pinko commie liberal.

We can do this all day my friend...

Colour or your mother never loved you.

Color or she doesnt know who your real dad is.

Colour or you didn't have a dad to begin with.

Color or you were born of a jackal.

Colour or you have no idea what one looks like.

GET ME THE SEVEN DAGGERS OF MEGIDDO!

Color or a Jackal resembles a fox/hyena. Oh right, it does.

Colour or... oh bugger this with a twelve and a half foot pile of lizard droppings. You know what, it's just a matter of preference all right? How did I let myself get dragged into this.

The day is mine, good sir, as a peace offering I present to you many delicious coloured eggs.

lol, I just noticed that firefox puts a spellcheck marker on the word colour, I believe the day is mine, regardless of preference.

At the risk of starting a new chain, I can't stand firefox, therefore I could care less what it says.

 

[DanDeFool]

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.

 

[Mrsoupcup]

Brits spell it with the U.

Canadian spell it the same eh.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

Color. If that's what it said on the Crayon box when I was six, that's how it should be spelled.

 

[Calderon0311]

Officially, Color.

But depending who I talk to, I'll use colour or color to troll people. >:3

 

[Aceptdtctv]

i have to say it... americans, the only people who couldn't translate english to english without spelling errors

ot: it's colour

 

[UberNoodle]

Why do you Brits spell simple words with extra letters? Even American English has it wrong too, but not as bad as you English fellows. I like the often literal spelling of words in German. Why do we beat around the bush with spelling?

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.

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.

 

[Dommius]

being a Canadian, Ive always spelled it "Colour".
everyone does it differently, but im guessing "Color" is probably the most popular.

Hey fellow canadian!
Sorry to ruin it but I spell it color I believe it's my american side kickin in.

Augh! We've been betrayed! Purge the heretic! .... I kid, I kid
[sup] mostly....[/sup]

Back on track, colour. Its natural for me to spell it that way so I do.

 

[MercurySteam]

I live in Australia so it's colour for me.

 

[UberNoodle]

Quite a few Former British colonies on this site...

I hope you are including the USA is that list.

 

[Zombus]

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).

 

[Ulquiorra4sama]

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"

 

[superbatranger]

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?

 

[Dommius]

Why do you Brits spell simple words with extra letters? Even American English has it wrong too, but not as bad as you English fellows. I like the often literal spelling of words in German. Why do we beat around the bush with spelling?

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.

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.

Ooooh. I do believe I just learned something new.

 

[micky]

color seams more natural to say.

 

[Odbarc]

I type color the american way. I am also canadian though.

Same with armor and such.

 

[soren7550]

Color, because you don't pronounce any U's and because I'm American.

 

[DarkRyter]

Coler.

Because I'm a loose cannon who doesn't play by the rules.

 

[UberNoodle]

If I'm not mistaken the British added the 'u' to make it seem more elegant and graceful. But this was ages ago.

Honestly I think it's kinda silly people even argue over trivial things like this. Zee, Zed, whatever. Doesn't matter.

There have many periods and movements in the English language's history and in terms of the 'extra U', it's meant to reflect the French origin of those words. I wouldn't be surprised if the American drive to remove the 'U' wasn't at least in part an attempt to 'de-Frenchify' the English language. Don't take that too seriously. I am just musing.

 

[Deviltongue]

Quite a few Former British colonies on this site...

I hope you are including the USA is that list.

I mean, that still use British spelling for shit...