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Flying Mullet
10-21-2005, 08:56 PM
The correct spelling is "or", not "our". :cool:

http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=color&word2=colour
http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=humor&word2=humour

Skarr
10-21-2005, 09:04 PM
M'mkay. Oooooooooooooooooo 'or'...ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...'our' :eek:

Giga Guess
10-21-2005, 09:05 PM
By that same site, Tifa kicked Rinoa's ass.

Rye
10-21-2005, 09:06 PM
I prefer colour, and I'm American. xD

Giga Guess
10-21-2005, 09:07 PM
Yes well you're wrong. :p

Rydia of Mist
10-21-2005, 09:36 PM
I prefer the European/Canadian spelling, myself.

Raistlin
10-21-2005, 09:48 PM
I prefer colour, and I'm American. xD
Were you born with some mental deficiency?

Cid spells it "color," therefore it is "color." End of story.

Old Manus
10-21-2005, 09:49 PM
Well Googlefight is wrong then

Rye
10-21-2005, 09:49 PM
Naw, I just speak to British people a lot and have picked up "colour" and other British spelling/phrases.

Yamaneko
10-21-2005, 09:50 PM
It's RGB.

Rydia of Mist
10-21-2005, 09:55 PM
It's RGB.
It's CMYK.

Alive-Cat
10-21-2005, 09:58 PM
I dont get it...

Yamaneko
10-21-2005, 10:00 PM
Me neither, but I think it has to do with YCbCr.

Flying Mullet
10-21-2005, 10:01 PM
You don't want to get it Alive-Man. They're corny dork jokes. :p

Meat Puppet
10-21-2005, 10:03 PM
they take out the "ou" in the south, apparently

Zeldy
10-21-2005, 10:38 PM
Its Colour :(

Giga Guess
10-21-2005, 10:39 PM
It's color.

Captain Maxx Power
10-21-2005, 10:50 PM
Americanisms give me ulcers.

Chemical
10-21-2005, 11:00 PM
European spelling is the correct spelling.

Why? Because:

The word "colour" originated in Europe. It comes from the Queens Language.

Americans were just illiterate at the time and dropped the "u" some where in the Atlantic. by the time they realised how terribly wrong they were it was too late to admit the folly. So, to fool all the other illiterate idiots they simply devised spell check and masses and masses of morons were converted.


*waves the American flag*

Denmark
10-21-2005, 11:05 PM
you people who use the extra u are so defensive.

rubah
10-21-2005, 11:07 PM
taking keyboarding classes has permanently damaged my ability to type in British.

Denmark
10-21-2005, 11:11 PM
not that that REALLY has any effect because i never took keyboarding classes and i type perfectly well and american

Chemical
10-21-2005, 11:13 PM
yoz d00dz uz iz 2 c ree us.

takez da j0kez y0.

Shauna
10-21-2005, 11:48 PM
Colour. :(

Color is wrong.

Raistlin
10-21-2005, 11:50 PM
European spelling is the correct spelling.

Why? Because:

The word "colour" originated in Europe. It comes from the Queens Language.

Americans were just illiterate at the time and dropped the "u" some where in the Atlantic. by the time they realised how terribly wrong they were it was too late to admit the folly. So, to fool all the other illiterate idiots they simply devised spell check and masses and masses of morons were converted.


*waves the American flag*
As I've said before, any country that uses a horrible word like "cheque" and pronounces "lieutenant" as if there's an "f" in there somewhere when there's obviously not doesn't deserve to have an opinion about anything.

faster skating penguin
10-21-2005, 11:52 PM
Dude, you "colour" non-conformists are so rad.

Yamaneko
10-21-2005, 11:56 PM
Green is the colour.

ScottNUMBERS
10-22-2005, 12:00 AM
Colour.
Color sounds like something that appears at the top of a shirt around the neck.

Chemical
10-22-2005, 12:01 AM
As I've said before, any country that uses a horrible word like "cheque" and pronounces "lieutenant" as if there's an "f" in there somewhere when there's obviously not doesn't deserve to have an opinion about anything.

It doesn't matter how they pronounce it. They made the damn words up and if they so please they can pronounce Raistlin. "Raflin."

If you think about it, your new funky ways of saying lieutenant as if there wasn't an "f" is far more awkward and unheard of. Letters are meerely symbols with assigned pronounciations.

Point in case:

w is pronounced v in some languages.
k is pronounced ghhhhhhh in another.

Furthermore, pronounciation differs from city to city, state to state, country to country. So really, that detail is obsolete considering spelling which should excercise uniformity through out all English speaking communities.

But it doesn't.

So meh.

The Jamie Star Scenario
10-22-2005, 12:35 AM
Silly Americans! You should have at least learnt the English language before driving us out of the country.
Or maybe it was someones rebellious nature that made the spelling go all wrong.
"Dude, wouldn't it be totally hardcore if we took the 'u' out of colour? I'm pretty sure that would piss off the Queen!"
"Fuck, you are so RATM!"

Doomie
10-22-2005, 01:23 AM
http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=Jojo&word2=Psychotic

Ultima Shadow
10-22-2005, 01:36 AM
http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=Jojo&word2=Psychotic
xD

Big D
10-22-2005, 10:53 AM
What the hell is the problem with different cultures having their own unique spelling variations? American English and UK English have evolved separately over number of centuries. What do we possibly gain by deciding that everyone should be exactly the same?
US English was 'cleaned up' a couple of hundred years ago, and letters deemed unnecessary were cut from a number of words. Hence Marlboro and Pittsburgh instead of Marlborough and Pittsborough, as well as everything already mentioned in this thread. But erroneous spellings like "one" (which bears no resemblance to how it's actually proncounced) were retained.
Neither system is better, neither system is right, they are simply different, and people should just accept that instead of whining about how everyone should be like them because their own country's got the most nuclear weapons, or whatever.
[/rant]

Loony BoB
10-22-2005, 03:15 PM
I don't know about everyone else in this thread, but I actually find it pretty fun debating this sort of thing, and only really do it in a light hearted manner. :p I don't think anyone is going overboard with anything.

Raistlin
10-22-2005, 04:14 PM
I don't know about everyone else in this thread, but I actually find it pretty fun debating this sort of thing, and only really do it in a light hearted manner. :p I don't think anyone is going overboard with anything.
Yeah, really. I always used to make fun of Bleys for the "lieutenant" pronunciation.

Oh, and "cheque" really is a horrible word.

Yamaneko
10-22-2005, 04:52 PM
Cheque mate.

Chemical
10-22-2005, 05:15 PM
I don't know about everyone else in this thread, but I actually find it pretty fun debating this sort of thing, and only really do it in a light hearted manner. :p I don't think anyone is going overboard with anything.

I concur.

It's just some good ol' fashion talk.. .I mean... really. What else should we talk about? Favourite types of pudding? How much bleach we drank today? Possibly compare the amount of times we've been dropped on our heads? Or maybe just randomly spit out verbal barf.

Huuuzah gooo lik blog

But really ;) I don't think this needs to be hostile at all, just some playful, psychotic ranting.

Giga Guess
10-22-2005, 08:24 PM
Yeah....so long as it doesn't get too bad, I can't see this being too horrible thing.

[Edit] Another legendary battle duked out....
http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=Apples&word2=Oranges

DMKA
10-22-2005, 08:46 PM
This thread is hilarious.

Odaisé Gaelach
10-22-2005, 09:13 PM
Чорнобйл or Чернобыль?

Чернобыль for me, even though it is slightly harder to spell than Чорнобйл.

Giga Guess
10-23-2005, 12:47 AM
And that/those words mean....?

Psychotic
10-23-2005, 12:53 AM
Why is it again that Americans are stereotypically seen as idiots?

DMKA
10-23-2005, 12:59 AM
The same reason the British and Canadians are?

Psychotic
10-23-2005, 01:02 AM
Yes, we're so dumb that we have to steal other nation's languages, take out letters because they make words too hard to spell, then arrogantly claim our versions are superior with no actual basis for such claims.

USA! USA! USA!

Hawkeye
10-23-2005, 01:03 AM
It those arrogant bastards that saved your asses in WWI and WWII

Psychotic
10-23-2005, 01:04 AM
What, by showing up two years late after we repelled all threat of German invasion? Gee, thanks guys.

It'd be the French that got saved by the Americans. Go trash their language.

Hawkeye
10-23-2005, 01:06 AM
We have. "Freedom fries"

DMKA
10-23-2005, 01:06 AM
Blame your ancestors. They're the ones who came over here and killed the people who were already here minding their own business and speaking their own language so they could do everything they're doing now. =p

Psychotic
10-23-2005, 01:13 AM
Are you calling my ancestors Puritans? YOU TAKE THAT BACK!

DMKA
10-23-2005, 01:43 AM
Okay, maybe I should of said "Your nation's rejects" rather than "Your ancestors"?

Leeza
10-23-2005, 02:08 AM
Чорнобйл or Чернобыль?

Чернобыль for me, even though it is slightly harder to spell than Чорнобйл.
Чернобыль is probably how I would spell it, but without the ь because that changes the sound of the л from hard to soft and it should be hard in Чернобыль. Shouldn't it?

Big D
10-23-2005, 04:08 AM
We have. "Freedom fries"Yet US air mail stamps still say "par avion" before anything else... I find that kinda funny.

ZeZipster
10-23-2005, 04:24 AM
I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
- Mark Twain

Odaisé Gaelach
10-23-2005, 04:26 AM
Чернобыль is probably how I would spell it, but without the ь because that changes the sound of the л from hard to soft and it should be hard in Чернобыль. Shouldn't it?

I'm rubbish at Russian, so I'm guessing that it's probably pronounced in English with the emphasis on the быль whereas in Russian it's pronounced with the emphasis on a different syllable.

Kinda like Борис. In English it's pronounced Boris, in Russian it's pronounced like Barees.

Rengori
10-23-2005, 04:45 AM
George kicked Bob's ass.

EDIT:
Oh, and Forte and Zero are still more popular than Megaman.

EDIT2:
For some wierd reason, spam is searched more than
porn.

Slade
10-23-2005, 09:16 AM
It's CMYK.

:lol:

Leeza
10-23-2005, 05:04 PM
I'm rubbish at Russian, so I'm guessing that it's probably pronounced in English with the emphasis on the быль whereas in Russian it's pronounced with the emphasis on a different syllable.

Kinda like Борис. In English it's pronounced Boris, in Russian it's pronounced like Barees.
In Russian I believe that the emphasis is on the но, but I could be wrong as I don't do much Russian speaking anymore. Where the emphasis lies doesn't really make the letters sound different though, but the ь is like an <i>e</i> at the end of a word in English. It's silent, but it changes the sound of the syllable preceeding it. The ь changes the consonant preceeding it from hard to soft.

However, after looking it up, it seems like both versions of the word have a ь, so it just shows how terrible my Russian spelling is. :)

Long live <i>colour, labour, neighbour, honour, lieutenant</i> with an <b>f</b> and <i>cheque.</i> :cat:

Del Murder
10-23-2005, 05:08 PM
One for Yams:

http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=Uni&word2=College

Odaisé Gaelach
10-23-2005, 05:08 PM
Long live armour!

Karl
10-23-2005, 07:27 PM
oops, was it multiple choice?

Rengori
10-23-2005, 08:32 PM
As for Color vs Colour...

We Americans kicked your Brits out of the colonies, so we'll spell it however we want.

Raistlin
10-23-2005, 09:38 PM
One for Yams:

http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=Uni&word2=College
xD

"Uni" is almost as retarded as lieutenant-with-the-invisible-f.

Rengori
10-23-2005, 09:40 PM
For Megaman Fans:
http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=dr+light&word2=dr+wily

Psychotic
10-23-2005, 10:13 PM
Re: leftenant vs lootenant (omg you don't pronounce the i!!!!)

Language was spoken before it was written. Therefore you should speak things as they are spoken, not written.

But if fonetik spellin appeerz to b sumthin yew lyk, ey hav ritten this sentunss fonetiklee az a speshul treet. :)

Loony BoB
10-23-2005, 10:59 PM
Re: leftenant vs lootenant (omg you don't pronounce the i!!!!)

Language was spoken before it was written. Therefore you should speak things as they are spoken, not written.

But if fonetik spellin appeerz to b sumthin yew lyk, ey hav ritten this sentunss fonetiklee az a speshul treet. :)
speshill*

sillee sy

Spiffing Cheese
10-24-2005, 12:29 AM
Just face it, both versions of the English language are stupid.

The Summoner of Leviathan
10-24-2005, 12:39 AM
Mould vs mold...Oddly enough I usually use the American versions of spellings, unless it it the word honour, neighbour, colour.

DK
10-24-2005, 12:41 AM
Yes, we're so dumb that we have to steal other nation's languages, take out letters because they make words too hard to spell, then arrogantly claim our versions are superior with no actual basis for such claims.

USA! USA! USA!


What, by showing up two years late after we repelled all threat of German invasion? Gee, thanks guys.

It'd be the French that got saved by the Americans. Go trash their language.

Paul wins. So hard. <3

Del Murder
10-24-2005, 01:15 AM
We're better because we have more bombs.

fire_of_avalon
10-24-2005, 04:00 AM
One of you english people record yourself saying lieutenant right now, I have never heard of this leftenant or what not.

Please?

Thank you.

Love,

Megan

The Summoner of Leviathan
10-24-2005, 04:04 AM
I am Canadian, but we say the same thing.

Rengori
10-24-2005, 04:35 AM
Did anyone notice the current poll is tied at 68%?

Samuraid
10-24-2005, 05:19 AM
"Uni" is almost as retarded as lieutenant-with-the-invisible-f.

:D

Sasquatch
10-24-2005, 06:30 AM
But then again, where the hell did "Colonel" come from?

Yes, the English language has surely evolved for the better.

However, this proves another point. (http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=Chicago+Bears&word2=Green+Bay+Packers)

Reine
10-24-2005, 07:23 AM
http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=EoFF&word2=Others

B)

Tasura
10-24-2005, 07:36 AM
bah, you silly americans the 'u' is needed,
on a side note http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=Boxers&word2=Briefs

Odaisé Gaelach
10-24-2005, 01:09 PM
Just face it, both versions of the English language are stupid.

Oui.

Flying Mullet
10-24-2005, 02:14 PM
I like to see everyone discussing this but the matter's been settled. This thread was merely to enlighten everyone to the proper spelling. :cool:

Drift
10-24-2005, 02:19 PM
colour, colour, colour, colour, colour, colour, colour, colour, colour, colour, colour, colour, colour, colour, colour, colour, colour, colour, colour, colour, colour, colour, colour, colour, colour, colour, colour, colour, colour, colour, colour, colour, colour, colour, colour, colour, colour, colour, colour, colour, colour, colour, colour, colour, colour, colour, colour, ~~~ ITS COLOUR

Flying Mullet
10-24-2005, 02:22 PM
http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=color&word2=colour

Also, if you watch the little animation before the results are posted, you can see "color" kick "colour" in the face as it demonstrates is superiority, finishing with a stellar happy dance.