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Because we want to use proper grammar.

Colour is a typo apparently.

:(

On Firefox, there's the automatic spell checker.

and Colour is a typo :(

Thats unfair.

There are other Dictionaries available for Firefox. I'm guess you're using English / United States, in which case, "colour" is misspelled.

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Because we want to use proper grammar.

Colour is a typo apparently.

:(

On Firefox, there's the automatic spell checker.

and Colour is a typo :(

Thats unfair.

There are other Dictionaries available for Firefox. I'm guess you're using English / United States, in which case, "colour" is misspelled.

Thanks Pyro,

just installed it :)

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why do people from places other then the U.S. spell color with a "u"
Someone should do research. Someone. :D
*Cough*

Time to play my broken record...

Briefly, the 'u' used by British English in such terms as 'colour' and 'favourite' originates from Old French from when the Normans conquered England in 1066. Old French was integrated into the contemporary Old English to form Middle English. (For brevity, the class struggle was omitted).

The 'u', and other loan words such as the season 'autumn', are French.

i mean americans came from england..... how did it end up being a little diff.
You chose to. In order to standardise the English language, lexicographers and grammarians from America preferred a more Classical theme, therefore they adopted Latinate features. The lexicographers from England, however, were adamant with their French.

The omission of 'u', and other terms as the season 'fall', are Latin in origin. You may have exiled yourselves during a time when French features were used, but you chose to standardise without them.

Ah, that was nice and short. Much more user-friendly than my previous attempts.

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Very interesting actually. I think we have a history expert on our hands!

Though the americans say all sorts different. Trousers are pants. Pants are underwear. God knows where trousers come in. And don't even get me started on french fries!

But remember- it's called ENGLISH. Maybe the english are right. :P Nah, I joke, and who am I to talk, I'm Scottish, not English. Scots is an even more stretched version of english... in fact some of it isn't at all, it seems like its own language. Though isn't it bad that barely anybody in Scotland can speak the native tongue, "gaelic"? Everyone speaks English instead.

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But British people understand the US words and I think it's vice versa. As far as I can tell though Kemary you probably speak better English than me, and it's my primary language. I got taught french for a little in school, apparantly I had a good accent... oh la la! :D

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I think we have a history expert on our hands!
Please, that's far too overstating of my knowledge. Thank you all the same.

It seems quite complicated, but this isn't really the case. You see, all you need is the basic frame to work off, then any additional dates are optional. In the case of 1066, it's a date that crops up between my English studies and Archaeology studies. Occasionally, I do forget the intricacies of language development, more so with the family titles (I have shocking memory, you see), so I use this 'map' given to us by my English teacher:

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I've never found it online since, but I'm not too bothered: it's helped on more than one instance with it being more than adequate and correct. Everything else is from a genuine interest in history as well as a hearty drumming-in for the exams. The rest is easy enough to find on the Internet as and when facts are required to support a claim.

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On the subject of color/colour (sort of), i got an english essay back today, and my english teacher had to add the "u's" in where i wrote "color" instead of "colour" lol. And i'm in the UK, so i should be writing colour.

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wow the english language is vary complicated if you think about it.....i mean three two, to,too(s) ( i really dont think wee need that last one, we could just say also or aussi i like aussi better cuz its french!!!!) but there are more complicated languages out there.

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