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Spell it "color" to help people with searches? To help Americans, you mean. "Colour" would've been a better, fairer choice. Of the 293 million people that make up the population of the USA, there are 30 million that speak English as a second language. This compares with a global estimate of 320 million who speak English as a first language, or 460 million when you include second-language speakers. This page, however, estimates that as many as 400 million speak English as a first language, and the total goes as high as 1500 million when you include people who speak it as a "foreign" language. See also this page for more info. God bless America. I think you should've left the original poster's choice of spelling unedited.
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Good god... settle down.
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Dude, if it was a simple matter of numbers, then the rest of the English speaking world would have forced Americans to spell "colour" and "honour" et. al. correctly in the first place. Sorry, majority wins. ;)
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Most Americans write "color" so it should be color.
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You didn't want to imply that all those who are not American and speak English as their nth language would spell "color" as "colour", or did you?
I think it's a very good idea to have the editor choose spelling according to his country's conventions. Most scientific journals do so. (Think of it like this: If MacOSXHints.com were a printed journal, then it would be printed in the US.)
This discussion is completely superfluous, but I just couldn't resist... ;-)
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You know, the 'u' is pointless. Perhaps you could at least admit that even if more people globally add the superflous "u" to color and honor, they are wasting time and energy. Think of the calories from writing and typing the extra "u" — not to mention the pixels, scrabble tiles, and ink!
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eww gad!
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Raised with American English spellings, I still prefer "colour" and "flavour" because the extra "u" just seems to make those words more colourful and flavourful. I'm glad there's some variety -- especially when it comes to accents and dialects. The spelling differences do trip up search engines, however, and there's no good reason why that must be -- search engines configured for English can be adapted to treat "color" and "colour" as equivalent, so why not do it?
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robg coulda helped this hint appear for searches of either spelling if he merely added a parenthetical instance of the 'other' spelling to the posted hint. This would have kept (nearly) everybody happy.
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I think people should use common sense -- Americans can understand the British spelling of a word, and vice-versa. If you are doing a search, on any website, search in the "language" (spelling) of the country the site is based out of. |
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