Colour probably comes from when english was frenchified, I mean it's a lot closer to couleur, but we don't pronounce it like that anymore so maybe you guys should drop it 8)

Quote Originally Posted by peegies
Why do americans not remove the superfluous 'u' from the word 'your' ?
Because it's not superfluous, it's from the stem 'you' and if that u was gone it would be 'yo'

There are some people who pronounce your as 'yor' (I guess I might do that about 40% of the time?) but I think the majority probably say 'yur'