British Spelling

Definitely colour…

Thankyou. I was just reading the comments on a celebrity blog (hey! I’m on StuVac) and I just can’t believe the ignorance of certain people! What’s more amazing is they tend to congregate on the same freakin’ continent—just north of Mexico, somewhat south of Canada.

I would like to apologise for that last comment. Totally unfair to all those who don’t believe in American “exceptionalism” or “manifest destiny”. Again, apologies.

gaol or jail?

I personally think that the only purpose of US spelling is so Americans can get higher scores in Scrabble due to the ‘Z’ factor… ie. Socialize vs. Socialise ; )

I do believe that all of your comments have a certain level of validity to them. Although, the US is somewhat retarded in their take on the English language, vocabular, grammar and pronunciation, they must be excused, due to the fact that they lack a certain “je ne s’ais quoi”... more specifically… anything that resembles a logical human brain pattern. Oh, by the way, no offence to any yanks that may be reading this…

Ah geez. We are really stooping on this page.

“Oh, by the way, no offence to any yanks that may be reading this…”

“If those beastly Americans haven’t beaten us to it…no offense…” ~Evelyn

None taken! Agreed on your spelling, as well. We do have Disney, tho…oh, and The Whopper.

Whoppre

This is my favourite page on this site.

It is strange that in the self-appointed Centre of the Universe, all of it’s 299,461,534 citizens cannot spell.

The reason Americans spell things differently is because they’re lazy (that “u” in colour is too much effort for most of my fellow countrymen). Plus, in America, we can spell the American way or the British way, therefore making thought less of a necessity. However, if a British person uses American spellings, they are sadly mocked… or so claims my British cousin.

The extra letter is so usefull! Colour 4TW

British spelling is just so much sexier.

It’s what makes me proud to be British. And that would probably be all…

but surely it being British spelling and England being the country that created the language, British spelling is the correct way to spell???

Brits created the language, Americans perfected it! ;)

lol well yeh thats bollocks

I just love the way “enamoured” looks.

In all fairness, they both have their own distinctive benefits. You spell the British way if you want to sound delicate and florid; the American way if you want a gritty realism. It all depends on what mood you’re going for.

(and British bigotry is just as bad as American bigotry, you know…)

Better than (lazy) American spelling

if you dont spell this way your not writing in english jack asses.

Wow Thomas, love your shitty grammar.

My English teacher told me that, when “honour” is changed to “honourable”, you drop the “u”.

She also told me that an albatross is a mythical bird.

(I do believe she’s losing her marbles)

That’s okay. My English teacher in 6th grade told us all that she was 125, but then she said later that she was in elementary school when Kennedy was assassinated (1963), so she couldn’t have been older than like 47 at the time.

Ofer god's sake, let's all just write in Old Anglo freakin' Saxon. Beowulf, anyone?

Haha.  What I dont' get though, is that until the United States was colonized by BRITAIN there was practically NO English at all spoken there.  So the U.S.A. took the English language that they had spoken up until they separated from Britain, and changed it somehow.    And then there is an argument over which language is better.  I just don't understand. 

They're pratically the same, I don't see the difference besides the slang and a few letters added here and there. One reason they changed though, is because the way it was pronounced was different after they settled. So, you would have to change the language to fit the common pronounciation. Or that's what I gather. They also probably simplized it as well.

No way in hell am I writing like it was in Beowulf. The book is amazing, but damn, that would be hard to understand for the majority of the people. 

The colonists just wanted to way any leftover touches of King George. =P

(Or rather, don’t blame me, blame Noah Webster.)

At the moment, British spelling, that is, PROPER English means everything to me. You don't know how annoying it is to be typing a thesis in Word only to have it automatically "correct" my spelling with American English! Even though I have it set to Australian/British English.

British Spelling. Definitely better.

pffft. American English PWNS! You know why? Cause it is the way of WORD. (WORD as in Microsoft Word). The WORD has spoken, let it be.

Actually, I don't really care. 

I love the 'u' and 's'. LOL

ow and i hope i made myself clear enough

Hmm.  "Nobody likes a backseat driver?"  :P

yeah that sounds right, but i never heared of it

dude u just did this on a diffrent best!

No worries, mates.  Soon the entire U.S. continent will be speaking and spelling in Spanish, so this entire discussion will equal the proverbial moot point.

not

uhuh yeah NO

I wouldn’t mind learning Spanish (although I prefer French), but those xenophobic “Minutemen”—what a perversion of a word—might have something to say about it.

And I was wondering: are there spelling variants in any other language besides English? I know there are word differences, but I don’t know if say, the Québécois spell any differently from the French.

Is the new picture from toothpastefordinner, inyourpanarama?

Yes indeedy.

I used to hate them for hating on Belle and Sebastian, but I love that one. ;)

I love that website. 

Oh!  Does it have a best category?

Runs off to search.

"Cheque" not "Check"!

It's great to be Canadian! 

I perfer grey instead of gray

I'll add I spell Canadian that's basically like British and then some additional differences 'cos that's how I was brought up. It keeps the original of many words like Centre intact.

The Americans decided to alter their spelling when Noah Webster tried to simplying English in his Dictionary of the American Language.

As for which ought to be used on international websites, I'm deking out of that debate. 

I believe it should be british spelling. The Oxford dictionary is more widely used than Webster's. The Oxford dictionary is in british spelling so there you go.

well if the language began in England should we use their spelling?

I say mum and colour. I cant spell mom or color without concentating. I also use humour, labour and bloody :D