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Authored by: moyashi on Jun 22, '04 01:29:57PM

eww gad!

Why don't you shoot:
Webster for choosing the British English spellings for use in the States
AND
Cambridge for choosing to use the "popular" French spellings in the UK (or was it England at the time)

So those extra vowels are and inverted spellings come from French and not English.

So use colour or centre if you support French based English and color and center if you support the [ahem] Queen's English. :)

but ... this leads into another whole ball of wax as to what makes English -- English :)



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Authored by: osxpounder on Jun 23, '04 02:56:52PM

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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