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Does anyone happen to know why the word "colour" gets spelled differently from country to country? Here in canada is gets spelled "colour" and I think its americans that spell it "color". I don't understand why its different. How about other countries, do they spell it different too?
It is the same with labor and labour, or aluminum and aluminium, either is correct, and whereas we got most of our grammar from Great Britain, it is colloquial and regional changes that creep in over time that change our spelling. Remember that it wasn't until Merriam Webster popularized his dictionary that there were real "rules" of spelling and grammar for most persons. Previously everyon spelt az thay wonted to and et was upto the reeder to figger aut whut they ment. In earlier times, only the gentry could even read and thus pictographics were the norm: The "Spreading Oak Inn" would have a picture of a spreading oak, the "Three Dragons " pub would have a sign with three dragons, etc.
Main Entry: 1col·or Listen to the pronunciation of 1color Pronunciation: \ˈkə-lər\ Function: noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English colour, from Anglo-French, from Latin color; akin to Latin celare to conceal — more at hell Date: 13th century
There you go...the spelling changes, as does the word labour/labor...closer to Europe, the less it changes.
British vs American spelling: Colour is British and Color is American,
because Canada was under British rule for so long, I guess the British influence stuck around...
this may help... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AmericanandBritishEnglishspelling_differences
And if you change your language setting to british english, it will accept colour as the right way to spell it instead of color...
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My country was colonized by the British so we spell it colour.but you can spell it in any of these 2 ways. They are all correct. There are still many words which are spelt in different ways by different countries . Eg socialization for america and socialisation for the British.
I spell it colour, but I live in America. I don't remember why, but I do know I used to get in trouble for spelling words like that with you back in school. To my knowledge, it's also supposed to be aluminium but Americans dropped it down to aluminum.
I hate that on one of my final essays we talked about racism and I used Color the American spelling at least like 20 some times in my essay and they marked it wrong cause I'm from Canada and should be using Colour not Color
Thats a good question. I noticed a lot of words in canada or other places have a you where in america theres just the o. like colour, labour, humour, etc. English is just weird.
I was brought up to use the colour, honour, centre, foetus, metre, etc. spellings in England. Canada has taken most of them. But I think the American way is a bit more efficient.
maybe dropping the "u" was our way of telling the british they no longer could rule us...it was our way of rebelling.
I don't know. check oed.com.
In America I think we are just lazy and dropped the "U" out of everything possible : ) im not real sure though sorry...
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