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by SomeOne on February 21st, 2007

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Why do people spell color and favorite "colour" or "favourite"

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  • by peterpatch on February 21st, 2007

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    That is the International English or British variant. It is used in UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and other former British colonies except the US. The Americans are very innovative and dropped the 'u' for the sake of efficiency (JK on that last part);-)

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  • by singwell-is off researching a lot on February 21st, 2007

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    I am Australian and that is the way we spell it. we got it from the British who got the spelling from the French.

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  • by Miklotov on February 21st, 2007

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    That is the English way of spelling them, as in the United Kingdom today. It was changed in Americas version of English

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  • by EL1 2 on February 21st, 2007

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    That's how the British spell it.

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  • by VivaNOLA on March 2nd, 2007

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    I went to school in New Orleans and we had to spell it colour and favourite there also.

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  • by A on March 14th, 2008

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    That's the way they taught me how to spell "colour" and "favourite" in school.

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  • by jin jang on March 2nd, 2007

    jin jang

    Because some want to add more colour to their color. And more favour to their favorite.

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  • by Anonymous on February 28th, 2007

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    It is the way Australians, and British people spell things correctly.
    You will also find other differences...
    such as.
    Car tyre (u instead of i)
    Phosphorous (ph instead of f)
    Sulphur (ph instead of f)
    It is correct for us to spell that way.
    The most annoying thing is that I can never get MS-Word to keep the 'Australian' language as a defaul no matter how often I select it as default. It is as though Micro-soft won't allow English based spelling. :)

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  • by starbrightgirl on January 8th, 2010

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    It's the British spellings for us in South Africa too. Also get frustrated with MS not sticking to my choice default - always just reverts to American!

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  • by Gamz on January 4th, 2010

    Gamz

    Because thats the proper way to spell them

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