On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Volkhart Baumgaertner wrote:
|Yo Glen Lowry,
|
|on Fri, 28 Jan 2000 11:27:50 -0800, you wrote:
|
|>First off the correct spelling is colour. I'm not sure where folks are
|>getting this color business from. Next the colonials'll be spelling it
|>honor and humor.
|
|Right. All three examples you gave are correct, according to my Webster's.
|The variants with the "u" are given as "chiefly British variants", so at
|least they are not completely wrong. :-) (though they sure look odd)
Oh, we're not going to have another British-American slugfest over
"proper" word spellings are we. ;-D The British use "colour", while
the rebellious American upstarts have adapted "color" in their
"American" English usage.
Apparently, where language is concerned, the American Revolution is
NOT over. ;-)
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