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Color or colour?
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manonski (f)
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Canadians write "colour", not "color". |
7 Mar 2010
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suxanita
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Both are correct. Colour is Be and Color is Ame.
I prefer Colour because we are teaching Be and not Ame. |
7 Mar 2010
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manonski (f)
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suxanita, you teach British English but some of us don �t. I teach Canadian English and some British English words don �t mean anything to us or mean different things.
That is why I always make my texts editable on my printables. That way, people can modify to the type of English they teach. |
7 Mar 2010
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joy2bill
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I always give my students the two alternatives and tell them to make their own choice. I explain to them that both are okay, depending on where they are going to use their English in the future.
This is part of the fun of learning English...it �s such a living language that nothing is ever the same. Keeps us all on our toes. |
7 Mar 2010
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RabbitWho
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I prefer color because that came first, I don �t see why the British felt they needed to add "u"s to everything, presumably to be more like the French. (Look up the etymology if you don �t believe me!) Still living where I do and teaching British English I have to put in the extra letter.
Here �s a nice list of words with this problem from wikipedia:
Most words ending in an unstressed -our in the United Kingdom,
Ireland, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa, Australia and most
English-speaking countries(e.g., colour, flavour, honour, neighbour, rumour, labour) end in -or in the United
States (e.g., color, flavor, honor, neighbor, rumor, labor).
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7 Mar 2010
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