Color or colour? Why?
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What does it say in your dictionary for your country. Whatever word they use is the correct one. As a USA resident I naturally would say color but a UK & other country person would say colour.
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Colour, because I am Canadian, and it is ingrained into my brain to spell that way.
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color..because it's the U.S. spelling
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Colour for non-USA is correct. Color for USA is correct and not pretentious.
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Colour, because it is the correct spelling >: P (lol, I don't understand why the US decided to spell everything wrong arbitrarily... I don't really mind I suppose, but it just seems strange for an entire country to decide on different spellings of words for -no- reason : D)
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colour, because NZ is a part of england (once, all those years ago) and we use the queens language
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Color because I come from the USA where our language is finely tuned. ( now me making a grammatical mess out of it while trying to say things is another story ) LOL
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Color because it's shorter. Long words scare me.
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Color because I'm too lazy to type the extra letter
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I would spell it according to the customs of the country in which I live. In the USA, it is color.
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The difference between colour and color is of a "u". Colour is derived from french. So it remains that way in British but the American have made it Color. I prefer colour as in Pakistan British English is taught
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klr :) kidding... it's colour.
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Colour. My background. When Webster created the first American dictionary, he looked on it as a mission to create a new language for a new country. Color is one of the many changes he made.
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Color, because I'm American, but I sometimes spell it Colour when I'm feeling extra "cultural"
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Colour, because that is how we spell it in the UK.
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Colour This is an interesting question. Some of the answers refer to the US spelling, and that the US spelling has changed, implying that the English spelling is correct. One answer refers to the English spelling having the 'u' because of the french spelling, which is, incidentally, couleur. So, yes, the french spelling does have a U , but it also ends -eur, not -our. Now, if we take it back a stage to Latin, guess how the word is spelled? Color! Along with honor, valor, etc. So, it seems that the English spelling, along with the French spellings which use -eur endings, are the modified versions. Webster, when he standardised US spelling by writing his dictionary, did so in order to simplify spellings. In the case of color, honor, valor etc, he was closer to the original Latin word than the language he modified! However, some of his modifications are a constant irritation to me - eg plow. That word comes from germanic languages - eg pflügen. So the English mutation of plough shows the root of the germanic word.
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Noah Webster, the American lexicographer, decided that the American people deserved an American spelling system, and so altered the spelling of words to make it more logical (?) and more democratic (?) (easier, I suppose, for people with little education).
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Colour, because that's how i learnt to spell it. (British)
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