Quote Originally Posted by Lone Wolf Leonhart View Post
What's up with the u in colour. It literally adds nothing except one more letter to write out.

'Murica.
The 'our' spelling is caused by the French derivations of words. It wasn't added - it was removed. Webster removed the Us to simplify the language for the Americans. He also changed words like theatre/theater, defence/defense (there are a few like this), travelled/traveled (also a bunch of other double Ls that he adjusted) and added a lot of Zs to words that he felt had more of a 'z' sound. It was to make the language less about its derivations about more about its pronunciation.