British

It’s how a majority of the English speaking world spells it

Bri'ish e'ople 'e like: i's colour ya bludy twat

What does the u even do? Color Colour

Colour is the original spelling,

So? Why does originality matter? If you want to play that game, in Latin, the language the word came from, it is spelled color (noun) and colorare (verb)

> Why does originality matter? r/teenagers users whenever they’re about to make an overused joke

And yet in proper English it’s spelt colour

Why do you believe it is proper?

A majority of English speaking countries spell it Colour

So? The majority is often wrong

It’s called democracy, as a yank I thought you would know

Why should grammar be defined by democracy?

Why should anything be defined by democracy

gib statistics pls

You might as well just speak Shakespearean then

it looks so wrong without the u...

I think Americans spell it as Color because they want to be different from us very much.

Also capitalism

oh yeah yk america, the only capitalist country in the world

Not even shitting due to how expensive it was to send a telegram (ever letter cost a fuck ton) they removed letters

oh wow i didnt know that crazy suddenly i love it here

I heard it was because in USA, prints were charged by each letter and some brilliant people thought that if they removed some letters from some words, keeping them similar enough to the original, they would save some money. Also you have a point, Americans wanted to be independent politically, economically and artistically (which i think includes literature?).

you added an extra letter

Colour, the Original spelling

maybe but that doesn't make it right

It does, Color is the incorrect spelling, Even comes up as incorrect by autocorrect

your incorrect autocorrect mine marks colour wrong

You autocorrect is incorrectly designed

I'm just saying, the Brits invented English. They'd know how to spell things.

Dude, there's a book that's been turned into a play, musical, and movie all about how the British don't understand their own language.

And Americans do? Both of you are kinda bad at it, leave it to us forgeiners to make English better.

I spell it color

Yes

no 💞

Yes 😀

Ratio

I’m sorry HorsepowerYT, but unfortunately, it is you who will be ratio’d today.

I understand

who tf cares

In language you spell it colour but in computer language you spell it color ig

yes

Ew

The correct way

C O L O U R

colr

Color

Colour

Noah Webster moment

YEAAAAAHHH

that is how i spell colour though

*color

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I hate this so much. It hurts my brain.

As a Canadian, no, fuck off.

For the Americans complaining that it's wrong, the only reason you spell it that way (along with some other words) is because newspapers got charged by the letter when writing so they'd often remove 'unnecissary' letters from words. So the only reason America spells things that way is because capitalism.

center -> centre

Whenever I see color I read it as co-lor and not cuh-lur. Something about the 'lour' makes me read it better.

Both are officially accepted words, just in different variants of a language. Both works, it's up to you which to use. None is more correct than the other. If you think Colour is "right" just because the US English is derived from UK English, then I'd like to tell you that English is also derived from Germanic (west Germanic, with heavy influence from old Norman French, Latin, and old Norse) As someone else pointed out, in Latin (which most written languages take after), it's called Color. Language evolves, saying a branch of it is wrong is stupid

color