Poll: Colour or Color?
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wwell this is silly, its just a question of British or American? for that reason I voted Charizard
this change is just another example of america needlessly mixing things up "hey heres an idea! even though we're all decended from brits, lets replace a bunch of completely random words, take the "U" out of colour and drive on the other side of the road!" (or should i say "street"?)
Being Canadian, I'm supposed to spell it "colour", but I prefer leaving the 'u' out of any words where it's not neccessary. "Behavior" is another example.
"Colour" is the original spelling in English, but Noah Webster [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah_Webster] took it that American's needed their own version of English to differentiate themselves from the Redcoats. Therefore most English words are spelt according to their etymological roots while American words are spelled according to their ease of use.NoblePhilistineFox said:
So both are right, or wrong, as the case may be.
Americans spell it color because they have dropped the "u" from a lot of words. In English it is colour because that is the proper way to spell it. Americans also use "nite" as opposed to "night" and pronounce "coyote" as "coyotee" (but oddly they've never wrotee each other notees). It's just another silly language thing.
When I started high school my ninth grade English teacher gave my class a spelling test of simple words, most of which coincidentally had multiple accepted spellings. Color was one of those words, but I wanted to be a smartass so the entire year I used alternative spellings for everything I could, especially colour.
Needless to say I didn't get very good grades that year but I did pass. I ended up getting a lecture that I needed to do everything 'the American way.' Come to think of it I probably shouldn't have been correcting my teacher's grammar, but I digress.
Long story short, I switch back and forth between the two.
Needless to say I didn't get very good grades that year but I did pass. I ended up getting a lecture that I needed to do everything 'the American way.' Come to think of it I probably shouldn't have been correcting my teacher's grammar, but I digress.
Long story short, I switch back and forth between the two.
The Charizard option has 72 votes right now. That's 72 members that could have done something useful with their vote if you hadn't inserted that option. But to stop nagging and start actually contributing to the discussion, I spell it "color" since I try to be consistent and American spelling is what they use in most of what I read.
I had a lot of exposure to british and Canadian entertainment when I was younger, and picked up a lot of "British" spellings. So I spell things like "Colour," "Honour," and "Aboot."
But still, "Maneuver." It's weird.
But still, "Maneuver." It's weird.
Colour, I'm a cheese eating Brit... So well that's how we are taught to spell it. As for pronunciation (which seems to be the big arguement for spelling it color with the looks of things. I'm from Barnsley so I pronounce it Kulur as part of my accent. See that's the problem with the whole pronunciation arguement, it's all subjective to your accent or the place you live... So that arguement fails.
