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(Okay maybe it's a spelling question...)
^_^ Which do you prefer? Colour or color? I prefer colour. It's way better than color. I don't know why....but in America, which is where I live, we spell it "color.(Except for ME!) It sucks. My teacher gave me a 94 instead of 100 because "I spelled 'color' wrong." Wow. :/
COLOUR ROCKS! ^_______^
I was taught to spell it 'color' and I've stuck with it. The 'u' just seems unnecessary...
Actually show her a dictionary which it should say "colour" also. Seriously, you do not deserve to lose a point because she does not recognize other forms of spelling that vary from the Americanized one. I mean even my teachers did not force us to spell the Canadian/British way, we spelt as we felt like it.
To be honest colour > color
The first time I used the [color] tag, I typed: [colour] ^_^;
You left too soon, Dixie.
<rubah> I used to spell british things
<rubah> then I took a keyboarding class
<Bert> you would
<rubah> and got tired of countings off for misspellings
<rubah> so I cured that silly habit quickly
Spelling being so standardized as it is is rather silly though, I mean they used to make up spellings all the time!
But there's nou use in typing coulour as that means you should add an extra u tou every o you type. Hout doug, mang.
I'm so used to not putting a 'u' in it, that I don't know if I ever will...
The one that surprised me most is "mould" I always splet it "mold" but my Biology teacher spells the Britsh way so I learned of it. The only words I tend not to spell in the British way is centre, I usually spell it center.
'colour' is a much more colorful way of spelling it.
colour. duh. Although I use both...
I use color. The other way is strange to me...
Color, please.
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Colour :D
*Is English and therefore spells things "correctly"*
Colour. Its been 'colour' for my whole life.
Haha, yup! Up here in cold Canada we can use both!
We can use both, but I prefer to use colour and we don't get points deducted here if we spell is the lazy way either. Yes, color is the lazy way because you all just don't want to use an extra keystroke. :cat:
I spell it with the u
Yeah I usually say color.
I spell it the correct way, colour. :p
I use Color. I would say because its how i was taught but I also say Armour over Armor and I was taught the second, so maybe I'm just crazy like that.
I like colour but i'm to lazy to spell it XD
I spell it Colour. It kinda annoys me how Americans take our language, change a few letters, and then call it their own.
"I speak AMERICAN". No, really, you don't. You speak english.
Colour. I spell it the British (aka CORRECT) way of spelling it, so I'm better than you! :cool:
uhhhhhh Americans dont exactly "take" the language. America started from English people, so English is the native language. And, In my four years of living here, I've never heard anyone say they speak "American"Quote:
Originally Posted by Zeldy
This topic made me look at the words color and colour so long I stopped being able to recognize them and wondered if they were miss-spelled. But I was taught colour.
Wow, indeed. A glimmer of hope for the public education system.Quote:
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Its just my opinion.Quote:
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Frankly, I don't care about how I spell it. I think it is quite stupid that your teacher took off points for saying "colour" instead of "color". If she fails to recognize both as legitimate spellings, then I have doubts about how your teacher got their job.
I dont really care...but I spell it color because thats how I was taught :p
I had the same thing happen to me in freshman english last year.:mad: It was pretty lame. I have started spelling alot of things like that now that I am taking german. It shows you how stupid we americans have made this language.
Color because it's one letter less to read/write/type/remember and I'm a lazy American.
Well, out of all the replies here I believe "Colour" is the word to say.......what the
hell was I saying.....coluor....??
well i dont really know....well ya i do lol...i think colour is a cool way to say it but theres no way i can get myself in the habbit of spelling it that way...
Bren Bren you big fat liar you just told me you always liked
the word color and how someday you would marry it!!!
me gusta color.
I spell it color, but everyone knows it should be culler.
I was taught that it was colour, or i taught myself.
color, I'm American.
I spell it color.
I spell it the Brittish (i.e. proper) way, despite being American.
x.x ive read 'colour' and 'color' to many times in this thread for that word to make sense to me anymore, but yea colour for me, and my Intro to Forensics prof stated that if we used any Ameican spellings she'd tak off marks x.x
I used to spell it color, but after talking to silly British people I've turned to colour. It feels more natural that way now too. :D
color
I lived majority of my life in UK, so I still use those spellings: (ie colour, armour, favourite)
Once I have lived in the US for 11 years, then I go to color, armor, and favorite, etc. :D
Wow...I'll be 21 then.....
Tou you "colourful supremacists"
Keep up with the times. Language evoulve, and if you can't change with the spellings, the spellings will change you 8)
ou wouw! Houw can soumeoune be changed by a colour?
Evolving? Ha. Colour is the Blastoise to color's Squirtle. Sodomise the French language if you...sorry...yo...yanks want something useful to do.Quote:
Originally Posted by rubah
Color.
vous seriez étonné par les similitudes entre "Redneck" et français.Quote:
Originally Posted by Psychotic
It's hard to get the idea across without going through the trouble of recording.
We speak english you weirdo, hence I take english class ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Zeldy
can i have some coloring crayons to colour my picture
i prefer both
I spell it with a silent "bm"
I spell it colour. It doesn't look right without the u. An it doesn't look right without the u, because its not right without the u.
ya i spell it color-it seems like colour would be pronounced ko-loor
i think color is much better. you don't say col-hour... you say col-or...
or really cuh-lore, but disregard the semantics.
I spell it colour. If you want to remove the u, you might aswell remove all the other unneccesary letters.
"hlo there, cn i get a colord pencil?"
wl thats hw every1 onlin talks neway ;)Quote:
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onli u lolQuote:
Originally Posted by yoshigirl
I say color, cause it's quicker.
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no one says cn, they say can. cn sounds more like a very fast kun. This is just a horrible post.
either way works, even though i use color more. colour is just fancier, like armour.