Whats the difference b/t color and colour?
Anyone have those words that are simple,but they always forget how to spell? Vent here, or just put em up.
2007-08-23 19:58:39 · 7 answers · asked by genesis33303 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
For some reason Americans have a dislike for 'u's' so they omit them from many English words:
e.g. colour, neighbour, neighbourhood, labour, favour, favourite, savour.
They also change 'y's' to 'i's' e.g tyre, tire and change 's's' to 'z's' e.g organise, organize, civilise, civilize.
I guess they think it helps people to pronounce the words properly. It can be very annoying if you have a word processing programme (program) that has an American spell checker (like the one Yahoo answers is using and is underlining all the words I have mentioned above as I am typing them)
2007-08-23 20:24:48 · answer #1 · answered by Jeff S 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Colour is the spelling used in the U.K. and related countries. Color is used in the U.S.
2007-08-24 04:03:13 · answer #2 · answered by neniaf 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
color is the American English way of spelling it, whilst colour is the brisih english way of spelling it. simple as that
2007-08-24 03:41:42 · answer #3 · answered by Sasha 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is no difference, its the same word, colour i think is how they spell it in like european countries they do that with a lot of words like well i can't think of one but yeah, no difference
2007-08-24 03:07:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In USA it's "color"
In UK and Australia it's "colour".
Simple really. Don't stress.
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2007-08-24 03:07:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
colour is french. Its more of a formal way of writing it.
2007-08-24 03:53:08 · answer #6 · answered by BlahBlahBlah 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
favorite, favourite
spelled, spelt
2007-08-24 03:07:09 · answer #7 · answered by mama3 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋