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What would you prefer?

Colour is the original "British" way to spell it. (And is right now giving me a misspelled word underline)

Color is the "Americanized" version.

What is your favorite colour? ;)

Bastards…

ColoUr. :rolleyes:

I like the color blue and the flavor chocolate.

From: Narcle
What would you prefer?

Colour is the original "British" way to spell it. (And is right now giving me a misspelled word underline)

Color is the "Americanized" version.

You are probably using a weird Spelling Corrector.
American is generally just English with some differences (flaws) in spelling.
This poll is useless, because all Americans will vote Color, while everyone who really knows English will vote Colour.

From: Wizzup?
You are probably using a weird Spelling Corrector.
American is generally just English with some differences (flaws) in spelling.
This poll is useless, because all Americans will vote Color, while everyone who really knows English will vote Colour.

Not useless! It'll also tell us who is Europe then eh? But you see maybe some Americans prefer the original spelling or some Europeans like to spell it shorter because its faster? Never know :p

Actually, I prefer colour to color, and I'm American.

Coulor?

They both work fine for me lol
and I have used both.

From: tarajunky
Coulor?

Lol? Did you mean to word it like that?

scar - color
non scar - colour
color only has 5 letters less ink wasted
colour has 6
some call me lazy
and some call me clever…

From: Wizzup?
You are probably using a weird Spelling Corrector.
American is generally just English with some differences (flaws) in spelling.
This poll is useless, because all Americans will vote Color, while everyone who really knows English will vote Colour.

I'm American and I voted Colour. Then again I do disagree with most of the stuff happening in America. I like the Old/Not Americanized version because is makes you think about the correct pronunciation.

Also my Firefox spell checker shows that colour should be color. So it might not be a weird spell checker.

I am from Australia being brought up in America. My parent use the english/aussie way, so I do. It also make sence that it should be spelled like colour, by just how it sounds.

From: Wizzup?
You are probably using a weird Spelling Corrector.
American is generally just English with some differences (flaws) in spelling.
This poll is useless, because all Americans will vote Color, while everyone who really knows English will vote Colour.

:P When I went to England, I heard more grammatical errors per-conversation then I do in America. To say that the British "know" English is laughable at best.

"Im not think mathew me."
"That's well good that."
"'ye all right mate?"
"I gots me own tee me."

Just a small sample of regular sentences uttered by the average person in Brittan.

They are two different standards of spelling, neither if phonetically correct so either is syntactically correct (as long as you don't mix and match).

Color. It's faster. Yeah, I'm lazy.

Im American :(. I write colour on things, but I'm not consistent with either. I switch back and forth.

Color FTW :p

From: boberman
:P When I went to England, I heard more grammatical errors per-conversation then I do in America. To say that the British "know" English is laughable at best.

"Im not think mathew me."
"That's well good that."
"'ye all right mate?"
"I gots me own tee me."

Just a small sample of regular sentences uttered by the average person in Brittan.

They are two different standards of spelling, neither if phonetically correct so either is syntactically correct (as long as you don't mix and match).

Well, there is a big difference between the actual pronouncing of the words, and how they write them.
Yeah, the more regular conversations that you would have with your family or friends differ from the conversations you would have with your boss at work, or teacher.
I'm pretty sure you also have that in America, we also have that in the Netherlands… :p

My favorite color is not a colour ;)

color!!!

Color.

I prefer color.
I'm American.
lol

Color

Colour. Jeez, I wonder who sits there and makes this shit up…

What was wrong with the original English spellings? Not good enough for Americans, eh? :s

Color, Colour is confuzzling.

Normal English: Colour

American English: Color



But I write Colour

Color.

The problem with colour is my brain wants to put the emphasis on the second syllable. If anything, let's spell it culler :)

C O L O U R ! No Other Spelling!

I sort of use both >_> .. But mainly colour, I think :p I don't even notice which I use.

From: Widget
The problem with colour is my brain wants to put the emphasis on the second syllable. If anything, let's spell it culler :)

haha I like that, culler.

and I do same, when I read colour, it makes me think the second syllable is supposed to sound like "or" when i pronounce it "er". btw, I'm American, so I was born with it being color, so that's the way I'm used to and the way I write it.

I remember when I used to see colour I thought it was spelt wrong a long time ago haha.

I use both, based on my mood, and whom I am talking to.
Colour is easier for me to type to be honest, and I usually use it on MSN, etc.

"Don't be a silly Amerikan talker; use colour."

I wear blue COLORED ARMOR!!!

From: Hy71194
I use both, based on my mood, and whom I am talking to.
Colour is easier for me to type to be honest, and I usually use it on MSN, etc.

"Don't be a silly Amerikan talker; use colour."

Yeah! Wtf , colour isn't hard! It's easyer then "color". Don't change the real english.

colour!!!!! :D

Colour!!! Dam Americans always just have to change everything, I'm Canadian. The thing that bugs me is that colour comes up as a spelling error when I type it…

Hey griff721. You use your own currency, why not use your own language? :)

Colour looks more proper.
Color is how it's spelled in American-English.

I prefer color.

colour :)

Colour - 19 - 35.85%
Color - 34 - 64.15%

Color wins. Kthxbi.

From: griff721
Colour!!! Dam Americans always just have to change everything, I'm Canadian. The thing that bugs me is that colour comes up as a spelling error when I type it…

/Agree

Americans always seem to maul just about ANYTHING they can get their hands on; language included.

From: Sandstorm
/Agree

Americans always seem to maul just about ANYTHING they can get their hands on; language included.

Not everything. But a few things.
Example: Rugby -> Football

I spell like colour, neighbour, favour, but don't pronounce the U like brits do.
Also, defence > "defense".

Well, since I have grown up with it, and that is best for my own use of the word "color",( simpler, im used to it, Americanized). I am happy to use "color" as my stated and used word. But, it really doesnt matter. :-)

I dont think you should be angry at everyone in America for changing to word. I didnt make it up, just grew up in it. Blame American scientists or American English professors. xD. Idk who threw the "U" out of "Colour". Research time? :-0

"Color" :-)

-corn77

corn, watch the date of last post before yours before you post.

You've gravedigged a few threads. This one might not count as one but still.

COLOUR

Americans, how hard is it to add a 'u', spelling it how it sounds. God :rolleyes:

From: Dr D. Dervish
corn, watch the date of last post before yours before you post.

You've gravedigged a few threads. This one might not count as one but still.

Dx.

Oh dear.

I understand, Sorry for my stupidity. I am quite ignorant at times. I will try to be more careful about this issue.

My apologies,

-corn77

From: corn77
Dx.

Oh dear.

I understand, Sorry for my stupidity. I am quite ignorant at times. I will try to be more careful about this issue.

My apologies,

-corn77

No problems… Just watch out unless you want the mods to sneak up on you ;).

From: Dr D. Dervish
No problems… Just watch out unless you want the mods to sneak up on you ;).

Funny you say that, I got an infraction. :-)

:-0. Oh well, made me understand that gravedigging was wrong. I heard the term gravedigging, but I didnt understand it.

I deserved it, so no biggy.

btw, u have 666 posts. O-:

corn