Poll: Colour or Color?

[onewheeled]

I like the way it looks with the U, but for all my fifteen years, I've spelled it "color".

Now that I think about it though, when it's spelled "colour", it seems like it should be pronounced differently. Like emphasis on the OU, pronounced as a heavy O.

 

[AWDMANOUT]

Colour.

I'm American, but I accidentally texted it like that to my girlfriend once, and we both decided to spell it that way from then on lol.

 

[Xeros]

"Color" because the "u" is unnecessary.

 

[TheMightyImp]

New Zealand = Colour. But I think in any country it should be spelt like that, because color looks wrong imo.

 

[ottenni]

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!

Yaaaaaay!

Also, don't forget Armour. Which funnily enough i pronounce arma.

 

[MasterChief892039]

I'm Canadian but here's how it is - Australia, Canada, and The United States were all once British Colonies. The British spelling has a "u", and therefore it's colonies spell it with a "u". America is the only country that perverted the British spelling, and yet today I always get Americans telling me I spell things funny - no guys. Australia/Canada/Britain all spell things the same. You Americans are the ones that are weird.

 

[thejayk]

Im American thus intolerant of your ways so color

 

[ultimateownage]

It's colour, but I chose the fifth pole option, SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT IT ALREADY!

 

[Luke Cartner]

aluminium or aluminum I guess it depends on if you speak the queens english or not...

 

[Slayer_2]

I'm Canadian, but why add a "u" to the word? Damn us trying to be different.

 

[Cain_Zeros]

The spell it "color" down south, but up here in Canada, as you said, it's "colour". Firefox's spell check doesn't even say otherwise, since I have the Canadian English Dictionary add-on ('cause UK English just isn't good enough for the truly patriotic).

 

[foodmaniac]

Australian's spell it as colour. The spell check is a lie.

 

[Elomin Sha]

It's colour because it's 'English' and not 'American'.

 

[Daipire]

Aussies spell it with a u too! (Heh, I just said U2!)

 

[Jewrean]

Australian. Colour. There doesn't need be a reason. And people that complain about a missing letter (or an extra one) are idiots. /thread

 

[Treblaine]

Depends, if I am using it in a phrase I made myself:

"My favourite colour is blue... NO GREEN!"

Then I'd use a "u" as that's the way it is spelt in the UK and as a UK citizen I should continue to use that spelling.

But if a quote or movie title used the US spelling:

"Color Purple"

Then I would not alter the spelling to "colour" if I repeated the title. It is an American name, quote or title therefore it should keep the American spelling. I expect the same in return for British titles and so on.

So: "I am anticipating the new game from EA; 'Medal of Honor', though I wonder how much the game really has to do with medals or Honour"

I think we can ALL learn a lot from the likes of Mark Twain and William Shakespeare who never cared much about the semantics of spelling and would both often make up new spellings as they saw fit. I don't give a damn... I spell colour with a U out of force of habit but I respect other spellings in other English speaking countries.

 

[Lucifer dern]

didnt realy ever bother me and i used to have like 90 charizards in those crappy pokemon cards...

 

[Revolutionary]

being from aus I say "Colour"

 

[brass munkey]

Oh boy Charizard! I mean I normally spell it as color.

 

[kaveradeo]

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

How do you pronounce it?

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

well my theory is shot...