Color vs Colour

Because Yanks can't spell...


"measekite" wrote in message
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Why is their a difference in the spelling of color (I think colour) on
both sides of the Atlantic.

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Why is their a difference in the spelling of color (I think colour) on
both sides of the Atlantic.
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Why do the Brits choose to drive on the wrong side of the road?

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measekite wrote:
Why is their a difference in the spelling of color (I think colour) on
both sides of the Atlantic.

I don't worry. I am such a poor speller to start with I like having
choices. It increases my chances of being right. If you watch my writing
long enough you will see both and mixes of even the same word from time to
time. I guess I am allows as I have citizenship in both US and IE.

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Joseph Meehan

26 + 6 = 1 It's Irish Math

measekite wrote:
Why is their a difference in the spelling of color (I think colour) on
both sides of the Atlantic.

I believe if you follow it back through history, you will find that it
has a lot to do with all the different version of English that were based in
different areas of the country. As it became standardized, which the
English did fairly early, they chose spellings based on popular writings and
politics-religion as much as anything else. Some words sounded a lot
different then so the spelling was different. I guess the US did not feel
so obliged to keep it the same and allowed changes. Some were good and some
were very bad.

Anyway that is what I learned about it long ago. That's the best as I
can remember.

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Joseph Meehan

26 + 6 = 1 It's Irish Math

MrB wrote:

Andy, good one. Most of us spell it your way.

Thought so :-)

I just thought it pretty lame to ask about the spelling of colour, then
use 'their' in the wrong context. It's a pair of words I see used so
often incorrectly in groups.

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"measekite" wrote in message
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Why is their a difference in the spelling of color (I think colour) on
both sides of the Atlantic.

We Brits spell 'colour' the correct way, and also we know how to spell
'there' and to put a '?' at the end of a question.

"measekite" wrote in message
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Why is their a difference in the spelling of color (I think colour) on
both sides of the Atlantic.

Don't forget your gray card and your grey card.

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(Andy Hewitt) wrote:

MrB wrote:

Andy, good one. Most of us spell it your way.

Thought so :-)

I just thought it pretty lame to ask about the spelling of colour, then
use 'their' in the wrong context. It's a pair of words I see used so
often incorrectly in groups.

Reading improperly used apostrophes and wrong homonyms is most confusing
to the people who understand their proper usage! Relatively neanderthal
people convert the word into sound, and then interpret in context.
Relatively literate people take the words at face value, and find them
to destroy the sentence. For example, someone might write "I burned the
CD's", meaning multiple CDs, but I am looking for something that the CD
possesses to immediately follow "CD's", such as, "I burned the CD's
paper inserts in the fireplace".
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John P Sheehy

"Andy Hewitt" wrote in message
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MrB wrote:

Andy, good one. Most of us spell it your way.

Thought so :-)

I just thought it pretty lame to ask about the spelling of colour, then
use 'their' in the wrong context. It's a pair of words I see used so
often incorrectly in groups.

Many can't tell the difference between;

there
their
they're

"Toomanyputters" wrote in message
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Why do the Brits choose to drive on the wrong side of the road?

Apparently it comes from the tradition of riding one's horse on the
left side of the road, leaving the right hand (side) open for handling
the sword, or so I've been told.

Bart