actually the British version changed so the spelling would be more like
the French.
>
> 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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