I don't understand it,but I think it's cute.
2006-10-11 12:45:10 · 12 answers · asked by It's killing time again..... 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
This is the traditional way of the English language. It is only different in America. When Noah Webster was writing his first American dictionary, he decided to change some words to make them easier to spell, like color/colour, plough/plow, and some other ones.
2006-10-11 12:49:38 · answer #1 · answered by Miss D 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It is not only the UK that uses the letter 'u' in many words.
Current British English spellings follow, for the most part, those of Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language (1755). Many of the now characteristic American English spellings were introduced, although often not created, by Noah Webster (An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828).
2006-10-11 19:50:41 · answer #2 · answered by Born a Fox 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because in the UK they spell the English language the proper way. In the USA they've changed a lot of the real words and made them easier. :-)
2006-10-11 19:59:33 · answer #3 · answered by Butterscotch 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because in Old English, the letter u was considered good luck.
2006-10-11 19:50:48 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Part of the french language!
2006-10-11 19:49:07 · answer #5 · answered by ♥♥Soon to Be Mrs.F♥♥ 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
that is the proper way to spell those words, they've been Americanized by taking the u out
2006-10-11 19:50:29 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's just they way the British want to do it.
2006-10-11 19:46:49 · answer #7 · answered by Judas Rabbi 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I THOUGHT YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN THE FACT CANADIANS SPELL THE SAME WAY AS THE BRITISH
2006-10-11 19:52:25 · answer #8 · answered by matt 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because some people have different,,, languages. I guess.Its cool.
2006-10-11 19:47:56 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
We do that in Canada too. Theatre, Centre, colour, pototoe, tomatoe
2006-10-11 19:48:01 · answer #10 · answered by CLARABELLE 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋