The native English-speakers that I work with are pretty evenly split between those who speak American English and those who speak British English. I have found that while I have mostly adopted American English spelling myself, I always write “behaviour” because a particular Brit I work with often talks about software behaviour.
As a non-native speaker I tend to mix the two. School taught me british spelling, internet taught me american. Colour is one of the words where I’ve always stuck with british spelling.
I was super surprised when I learned that RuneScape got me stuck on the British spelling of Armour as a kid. Armour has a U in it and you cannot convince me otherwise!
I’m always very annoyed by technical tools that stick to US spelling and that will consider “colour” to be a syntax error. I sometimes set up aliases to get rid of those.
The way the US spells things is stupid
I like that there’s multiple spellings of words, gives me a better success rate.
The letter “u” belongs in neighbour, harbour, savour, etc.
Maybe this is regional, but its feel like people pronounce them neighber, harbur, and savor,
Definitely regional, and that’s the fun part of languages.
You’re probably right but this is where might makes right kicks in.
I prefer the US spelling of these words. The U doesn’t do anything phonetically and was not present in the Latin from which many of the words derive.
The native English-speakers that I work with are pretty evenly split between those who speak American English and those who speak British English. I have found that while I have mostly adopted American English spelling myself, I always write “behaviour” because a particular Brit I work with often talks about software behaviour.
As a non-native speaker I tend to mix the two. School taught me british spelling, internet taught me american. Colour is one of the words where I’ve always stuck with british spelling.
I was super surprised when I learned that RuneScape got me stuck on the British spelling of Armour as a kid. Armour has a U in it and you cannot convince me otherwise!
I use both spellings. Armour: The kind you wear. Armor: The kind you drive.
I think I was just a rebellious teen but I (an american English speaker from my earliest) always spell colour with the u. No idea why
I do that too, and I blame Neopets.
I’m always very annoyed by technical tools that stick to US spelling and that will consider “colour” to be a syntax error. I sometimes set up aliases to get rid of those.
No u!
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