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10-21-2005, 08:56 PM
Flying Mullet

Let the record show

The correct spelling is "or", not "our". :cool:

http://www.googlefight.com/index.php...r&word2=colour
http://www.googlefight.com/index.php...r&word2=humour
10-21-2005, 09:04 PM
Skarr

M'mkay. Oooooooooooooooooo 'or'...ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...'our' :eek:
10-21-2005, 09:05 PM
Giga Guess

By that same site, Tifa kicked Rinoa's ass.
10-21-2005, 09:06 PM
Rye

I prefer colour, and I'm American. xD
10-21-2005, 09:07 PM
Giga Guess

Yes well you're wrong. :p
10-21-2005, 09:36 PM
Rydia of Mist

I prefer the European/Canadian spelling, myself.
10-21-2005, 09:48 PM
Raistlin

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rye

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.
10-21-2005, 09:49 PM
Old Manus

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

Naw, I just speak to British people a lot and have picked up "colour" and other British spelling/phrases.
10-21-2005, 09:50 PM
Yamaneko

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

Quote:

Originally Posted by Yamaneko

It's RGB.

It's CMYK.
10-21-2005, 09:58 PM
Alive-Cat

I dont get it...
10-21-2005, 10:00 PM
Yamaneko

Me neither, but I think it has to do with YCbCr.
10-21-2005, 10:01 PM
Flying Mullet

You don't want to get it Alive-Man. They're corny dork jokes. :p
10-21-2005, 10:03 PM
Meat Puppet

they take out the "ou" in the south, apparently
10-21-2005, 10:38 PM
Zeldy

Its Colour :(
10-21-2005, 10:39 PM
Giga Guess

It's color.
10-21-2005, 10:50 PM
Captain Maxx Power

Americanisms give me ulcers.
10-21-2005, 11:00 PM
Chemical

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*
10-21-2005, 11:05 PM
Denmark

you people who use the extra u are so defensive.
10-21-2005, 11:07 PM
rubah

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

not that that REALLY has any effect because i never took keyboarding classes and i type perfectly well and american
10-21-2005, 11:13 PM
Chemical

yoz d00dz uz iz 2 c ree us.

takez da j0kez y0.
10-21-2005, 11:48 PM
Shauna

Colour. :(

Color is wrong.
10-21-2005, 11:50 PM
Raistlin

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chemical

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.
10-21-2005, 11:52 PM
faster skating penguin

Dude, you "colour" non-conformists are so rad.
10-21-2005, 11:56 PM
Yamaneko

Green is the colour.
10-22-2005, 12:00 AM
ScottNUMBERS

Colour.
Color sounds like something that appears at the top of a shirt around the neck.
10-22-2005, 12:01 AM
Chemical

Quote:

Originally Posted by Raistlin

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.
10-22-2005, 12:35 AM
The Jamie Star Scenario

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!"
"smurf, you are so RATM!"
10-22-2005, 01:23 AM
Doomie

http://www.googlefight.com/index.php...ord2=Psychotic
10-22-2005, 01:36 AM
Ultima Shadow

Quote:

Originally Posted by Del Mordor

http://www.googlefight.com/index.php...ord2=Psychotic

xD
10-22-2005, 10:53 AM
Big D

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]
10-22-2005, 03:15 PM
Loony BoB

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.
10-22-2005, 04:14 PM
Raistlin

Quote:

Originally Posted by Loony BoB

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

Cheque mate.
10-22-2005, 05:15 PM
Chemical

Quote:

Originally Posted by Loony BoB

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.
10-22-2005, 08:24 PM
Giga Guess

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...&word2=Oranges
10-22-2005, 08:46 PM
DMKA

This thread is hilarious.
10-22-2005, 09:13 PM
Odaisé Gaelach

Чорнобйл or Чернобыль?

Чернобыль for me, even though it is slightly harder to spell than Чорнобйл.
10-23-2005, 12:47 AM
Giga Guess

And that/those words mean....?
10-23-2005, 12:53 AM
Psychotic

Why is it again that Americans are stereotypically seen as idiots?
10-23-2005, 12:59 AM
DMKA

The same reason the British and Canadians are?
10-23-2005, 01:02 AM
Psychotic

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!
10-23-2005, 01:03 AM
Hawkeye

It those arrogant bastards that saved your asses in WWI and WWII
10-23-2005, 01:04 AM
Psychotic

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.
10-23-2005, 01:06 AM
Hawkeye

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

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
10-23-2005, 01:13 AM
Psychotic

Are you calling my ancestors Puritans? YOU TAKE THAT BACK!
10-23-2005, 01:43 AM
DMKA

Okay, maybe I should of said "Your nation's rejects" rather than "Your ancestors"?
10-23-2005, 02:08 AM
Leeza

Quote:

Originally Posted by OdaiseGaelach

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?
10-23-2005, 04:08 AM
Big D

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hawkeye

We have. "Freedom fries"

Yet US air mail stamps still say "par avion" before anything else... I find that kinda funny.
10-23-2005, 04:24 AM
ZeZipster

I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
- Mark Twain
10-23-2005, 04:26 AM
Odaisé Gaelach

Quote:

Originally Posted by Leeza

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.
10-23-2005, 04:45 AM
Rengori

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.
10-23-2005, 09:16 AM
Slade

Quote:

Originally Posted by Doofhull

It's CMYK.

:lol:
10-23-2005, 05:04 PM
Leeza

Quote:

Originally Posted by OdaiseGaelach

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 e 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 colour, labour, neighbour, honour, lieutenant with an f and cheque. :cat:
10-23-2005, 05:08 PM
Del Murder

One for Yams:

http://www.googlefight.com/index.php...&word2=College
10-23-2005, 05:08 PM
Odaisé Gaelach

Long live armour!
10-23-2005, 07:27 PM
Karl

oops, was it multiple choice?
10-23-2005, 08:32 PM
Rengori

As for Color vs Colour...

We Americans kicked your Brits out of the colonies, so we'll spell it however we want.
10-23-2005, 09:38 PM
Raistlin

Quote:

Originally Posted by Del Murder

One for Yams:

http://www.googlefight.com/index.php...&word2=College

xD

"Uni" is almost as retarded as lieutenant-with-the-invisible-f.
10-23-2005, 09:40 PM
Rengori

For Megaman Fans:
http://www.googlefight.com/index.php...&word2=dr+wily
10-23-2005, 10:13 PM
Psychotic

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. :)
10-23-2005, 10:59 PM
Loony BoB

Quote:

Originally Posted by Psychotic

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
10-24-2005, 12:29 AM
Spiffing Cheese

Just face it, both versions of the English language are stupid.
10-24-2005, 12:39 AM
The Summoner of Leviathan

Mould vs mold...Oddly enough I usually use the American versions of spellings, unless it it the word honour, neighbour, colour.
10-24-2005, 12:41 AM
DK

Quote:

Originally Posted by Psychotic

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!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Psychotic

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
10-24-2005, 01:15 AM
Del Murder

We're better because we have more bombs.
10-24-2005, 04:00 AM
fire_of_avalon

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
10-24-2005, 04:04 AM
The Summoner of Leviathan

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I am Canadian, but we say the same thing.
10-24-2005, 04:35 AM
Rengori

Did anyone notice the current poll is tied at 68%?
10-24-2005, 05:19 AM
Samuraid

Quote:

Originally Posted by Raistlin

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

:D
10-24-2005, 06:30 AM
Sasquatch

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.
10-24-2005, 07:23 AM
Reine

http://www.googlefight.com/index.php...F&word2=Others

B)
10-24-2005, 07:36 AM
Tasura

bah, you silly americans the 'u' is needed,
on a side note http://www.googlefight.com/index.php...s&word2=Briefs
10-24-2005, 01:09 PM
Odaisé Gaelach

Quote:

Originally Posted by Spiffing Cheese

Just face it, both versions of the English language are stupid.

Oui.
10-24-2005, 02:14 PM
Flying Mullet

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:
10-24-2005, 02:19 PM
Drift

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
10-24-2005, 02:22 PM
Flying Mullet

http://www.googlefight.com/index.php...r&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.

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