Poll: Colour or Color?

[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.

Ahh, the 'archaic' argument. I am sure you are just joking around but just to comment on that: probably nothing is pure in English and to avoid any corruptions or archaisms would be a neverending endevour. So we remove a few U's from some words. Well what about all of the endless other examples of inconsistancy? Those U's and so on, reflect the history of their words. Since only learners of the language would need to spell phonetically (natives spell most words automatically from memory), a U here or not here, doesn't really matter. It could have an X in it, and natives would still know 'how to spell it'.

Yeah, I was just messing around. I don't really care how you spell it. Still, I do prefer 'color' to 'colour'. 'Colour' just doesn't look right to me; like you should be pronouncing it like 'allure' (something like 'callure') instead of how it's supposed to be pronounced.

 

[Agrael]

Colour.. because that is how they taught me in school.

English is ENGLISH.
Not AMERICAN English...

 

[BlackIronGuardian]

Colour. Queen's English, gents.

 

[Denamic]

Learned British English in school, so colour.
But then again, I got most of my actual English proficiency from the intertubes, so I'll often use Americanized words.
...like using -ize instead of -ise like I just did.

 

[Vuljatar]

Color.

If it were pronounced like velour I would spell it colour, but it's not.

 

[carpathic]

colour...Canadian!

 

[Nukey]

I mostly spell it "color", on account of being American, but from time to time I'll spell it "colour" if I'm talking with anyone who is from another country.

 

[Vaewyn]

I'm from Australia so I spell it colour.

 

[Contun]

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.

I knew it had something to do with France. I think England was interested in French culture so they adopted some of their behaviors and mannerisms. Not completely sure though...

 

[Kagim]

Colour, the Canadian Way.

Spellcheck hates me for it.

Edit: looking at it the word looks silly either way.

What a stupid word.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Colour is the only way you spell it in my town. Spell it differently and it will get pointed out.

 

[Clueless Hero]

Since I live in America, I spell it "color".

 

[v3n0mat3]

One of these threads? Well, as I always say: IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW YOU SAY IT, IT MEANS THE SAME THING, IT'S QUITE PETTY TO BICKER OVER HOW IT'S SPELLED. Also, the same goes for the type of system of measurements Americans vs. rest of the world uses (even though everyone uses both standard and metric, situation pending). It's just stupid squabbling that amounts to, well, nothing.

 

[Luke5515]

I choose charizard because that's the closest i could find to other.
I'm told that I pronounce it like Keller. Like the Helen kind. I can't hear the difference.

 

[FortheLegion]

I'm pretty sure Colour is French and Color is English

 

[Tinneh]

I spell it color, because I write like a goddamn man!

JK.

Seriously though, I spell it "color," just out of habit, and because spell check highlights "colour" as incorrect.

Your harmless jokes fill me with rage!

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KIKOUSHOU!​

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OT: Colour, because it has more letters, so it's automagically better.

 

[peterzad]

Since I live in Canada I spell it as colour

 

[dududf]

I'm Canadian, so I spell it as ?colour?.

How do you pronounce it?

Cull-Er for me, and I'm Canadian.

 

[Kortney]

Ugh. May have well just made a poll asking "where do you live?" with two options:

-USA.
-Somewhere else.

Would get the same results. Color is spelled by Americans, Colour is spelled by everyone else.

Fun fact: Australians pronounce it "cull-a" due to their inability to pronounce the r on the end of words. Water is "war-ta" runner is "run-ah" and colour is "cull-a".

Funner fact: Singer in Australian would be "sing-ah", however here in Manchester in England it would be "sin-ga". WOOOOOW

holy fuck im tired.

 

[InsaneOne10]

AHHHH! AHHHH! MULTIPLE SPELLINGS! AHHHH!

Either way, it's colour because color looks weird (and also because I live in Canada, but that's not important).

How about we just change it to kuller? Then we kan spell everything fonetikly. Or not...