Poll: Colour or Color?

[ottenni]

Fun fact: Australians pronounce it "cull-a" due to their inability to pronounce the r on the end of words.

Heeeeeey. You ninjad my response. Now how am i supposed to dazzle people with my inability to pronounce r's.

 

[capnpupster]

Color, 'cause I'm American.
I heard that the extra "u"s and other letters in British English came from French influence anyway. Is that even true?

 

[loppopoo]

Does it really fucking matter?

 

[historybuff]

This is kind of a dumb question.

It's with a "u" in some parts of the world and without a "u" in others.

 

[tthor]

its COLOR, damnit! Dx

 

[Kortney]

Fun fact: Australians pronounce it "cull-a" due to their inability to pronounce the r on the end of words.

Heeeeeey. You ninjad my response. Now how am i supposed to dazzle people with my inability to pronounce r's.

Haha, I'm sorry . How about I pretend I never knew that you couldn't pronounce an r, then you can say a word and not pronounce the r and I'll be really impressed!

Then everyone will pick you up and carry you down the street and you'll be back!

 

[blankedboy]

Colour, but when I do game-specific coding, 'color' comes up alot and 'colour' only came up once.

Also, put one more fucking Charizard option in a poll and you're on my block list.

 

[ottenni]

snippety

Nah thats okay. Ill just amaze everyone by changing their name into strange this like Davo and Cazza.

But you can still carry me down the street if you like.

 

[Kortney]

It's not just colour British colonies chuck a 'U' in, is it? Favour and honour are two more, surely there is even more?

But you can still carry me down the street if you like.

Done deal!

 

[Crimson King]

I spell it "colour" just to confuse people and just because it seems cooler to do. When I was in english class and we did peer editing people would think that it was a spelling error and they'd mark me down for it, and I would act offended.

 

[Thedayrecker]

Color, because spelling it "colour", in Florida, is grounds for being run out of town by the local queer-beaters

 

[Falseprophet]

As a Canadian, I use "colour". Spellcheck can get bent.

I'll also note that spelling only started being standardized a couple of centuries ago, and sometimes the most ridiculous versions are chosen. I got to talk with the editor of the Canadian Oxford English Dictionary once, and she thought when they were picking which spelling of "porpoise" to use, they must have pinned all the options to a dartboard and let fly.

The reason it is spelled "color" instead of "colour" in the States is because in the early 1900's there was this movement to make English easier to understand and write. I forget all the details, but we basically took all of the U's out of any OU words and some other things before giving up altogether. I think Roosevelt was behind it, which is kind of ironic.

Edit: Found an article on it.
http://history1900s.about.com/od/1900s/qt/trspelling.htm

You're incorrect: American spellings were pioneered by Noah Webster, lexicographer of the first American English dictionary--yes, that Webster's Dictionary. Webster was a supporter and beneficiary of the American Revolution and wanted to "Americanize" the spelling of words [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah_Webster#Blue_Backed_Speller] to differentiate them from the spellings of decadent and corrupt English aristocrats. Since Webster was hugely influential on early American dictionaries and early American schools, he got his way.

 

[RMcD94]

I'm British so I spell it colour. It's British English, not English English, and not to mention English also developed in the lowlands of Scotland too. Really should be called Lesserbritish. He he.

Well I'll be damned, the Wikipedia page is edited. It used to have a nicely quotable bit. :sadface:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language#History

 

[Emissary Laito]

I spell it color.
If I don't, my browser tells me I'm wrong.
It's just become a habit to do it like that now.

Truly I am a traitor to the great British empire.

 

[Diligent]

I spell it Kollure, because it's hip to be different.

Nah, being from Canada, it's colour. I just ignore the red lines spell check always gives you. But I learned an interesting fact from this thread, for why it's spell color in America. Cool.

 

[Nouw]

I live in New Zealand so Colour

 

[Najos]

As a Canadian, I use "colour". Spellcheck can get bent.

I'll also note that spelling only started being standardized a couple of centuries ago, and sometimes the most ridiculous versions are chosen. I got to talk with the editor of the Canadian Oxford English Dictionary once, and she thought when they were picking which spelling of "porpoise" to use, they must have pinned all the options to a dartboard and let fly.

The reason it is spelled "color" instead of "colour" in the States is because in the early 1900's there was this movement to make English easier to understand and write. I forget all the details, but we basically took all of the U's out of any OU words and some other things before giving up altogether. I think Roosevelt was behind it, which is kind of ironic.

Edit: Found an article on it.
http://history1900s.about.com/od/1900s/qt/trspelling.htm

You're incorrect: American spellings were pioneered by Noah Webster, lexicographer of the first American English dictionary--yes, that Webster's Dictionary. Webster was a supporter and beneficiary of the American Revolution and wanted to "Americanize" the spelling of words [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah_Webster#Blue_Backed_Speller] to differentiate them from the spellings of decadent and corrupt English aristocrats. Since Webster was hugely influential on early American dictionaries and early American schools, he got his way.

They might have been pioneered by Webster, but he didn't actually get the nation to change, otherwise the whole Carnegie/Roosevelt thing would have never happened. They weren't just changing a few things, they wanted to change tons and tons of things. Roosevelt actually got the gov't to start using different spellings in all of the official documents. Yeah, it mostly failed in the end, but I'm almost positive that's where the U.S. gets the spelling of color, honor, fantasy, center, labor, etc.

Edit: But I'll e-mail my friend that's a history professor at a local uni and see what he thinks. I'm sure he knows about this crap. Guy's like an encyclopedia of useless shit.

Edit2: Oh, and you say Webster was influential in early American schools, but that really wouldn't matter. Hardly any kids went to school until the early 1900s unless they were from wealthy families and even then public education was only a baby compared to what it is now. Actually, I don't even think elementary was required until after WW1.

 

[TheSkaAssassin]

I'm american and I use the u. The u adds flavour.

did you see what I did there?

 

[RAMBO22]

I suppose because of how wonderfully erroneous the English language is, either spelling could technically be pronounced as "kul-ler" (that was my best attempt at a dictionary-style word pronunciation), but I, speaking "American" English, have always spelled it "color".

 

[coldshadow]

I hate when people make a big deal when you spell it the way they aren'y used to...