What is the diff? Why is it different?
2006-09-03 18:15:20 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Drawing & Illustration
Colour is the spelling in English language.
Color is the spelling in American language.
2006-09-03 18:19:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Colour is the original and proper form derived from English language. The English left this legacy in all its colonies from Australia, India, Hong Kong, Africa, Caribbean, Canada, Scotland and Ireland. The saying went "the sun never sets on the British empire," until it did, of course.
We independent-minded Americans are the only former colonials who dropped the "u" and adopted "color". And of course, we are the only ones who don't use metric system widely, no matter how long our govt have tried to make us conform to world standards.
2006-09-04 21:16:04 · answer #2 · answered by chance 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Colour is the original spelling of the English word. The shorter spelling is a subsequent variation forced upon the rest of the English-speaking world.
2006-09-04 21:57:25 · answer #3 · answered by joyfulpaints 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
For the same reason that some people write favourite , while others write favorite. One is American spelling , and the other is English spelling .Americans spell color and favorite with-out the ' u ' .
2006-09-04 02:16:07 · answer #4 · answered by skeetejacquelinelightersnumber7 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Colour is the Australian spelling as well as English - although both spellings are accepted in Australia.
2006-09-04 01:22:01 · answer #5 · answered by kurtness 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the difference is just the spelling preference. One is from Europe and the other America - I guess. Either way both are correct.
2006-09-04 02:03:31 · answer #6 · answered by danikatspecial 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In Canada the correct spelling is colour, similarly odour is not spelled 'odor' in Canada. I suspect people in the U.S. just try to shorten things or are speedier.
2006-09-04 01:42:53 · answer #7 · answered by Elizabethfrny 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on which side of the Atlantic you are on. Brits use the 'ou' spelling, while Americans, needing to reflect their independence from the crown, dropped the use of the 'u' .
2006-09-04 01:21:21 · answer #8 · answered by Lonnie P 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Us Aussies spell it colour. Yanks spell it color :)
2006-09-04 01:21:20 · answer #9 · answered by bindygirl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because different countries spell it different ways. Like check vs. cheque.
2006-09-04 01:21:14 · answer #10 · answered by DontPanic 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋