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View Poll Results: Colour or Color?
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Both are right...
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28 Jan 2003, 23:25
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Happy
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Colour or Color??
well? what do you think?
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28 Jan 2003, 23:27
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Dirte
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"im young and drunk, so i dont caaaaaaaaaaaaareeeeeeeeeeee!"
Hm.
Yes, that is quite fitting.
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28 Jan 2003, 23:36
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Happy
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and yes this poll was inspired by Nem3sis's thread :P
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29 Jan 2003, 00:10
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it depends which English you learn
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29 Jan 2003, 00:14
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I AM OSCAR WILDE
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I use "couleur" 
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29 Jan 2003, 00:31
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i am english and use 'colour' as god intended. however since both are corect somewhere i voted 'both are right'
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29 Jan 2003, 00:32
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"Colour" is the true English spelling.
The CSS specification uses "Color".... which is annoying.
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29 Jan 2003, 00:47
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Snake of the Sand
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considering there's no "god intended it that way" in language, and "true english spelling" is a far cry from ANY form of english used today, I voted both right.
I'm sure the early english speakers would be horrified by either.
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29 Jan 2003, 00:59
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share the <3
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ffs doods, like get with the 21st century, its clr.
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29 Jan 2003, 01:06
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New poll!!!!!!:
Humor or Humour?
Gotta love the English and the Americans why can't we all use one frigging style, same goes for the measuring system (sp?) weight etc
Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
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29 Jan 2003, 01:24
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Quote:
Originally posted by Kumnaa
it depends which English you learn
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Do you play football or soccer?
heathen
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29 Jan 2003, 01:37
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Quote:
Originally posted by Sandsnake
considering there's no "god intended it that way" in language
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how do you know? chances are that your right but yu cant prove it/
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29 Jan 2003, 01:42
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i use colour cause im not americanized
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29 Jan 2003, 02:18
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Snake of the Sand
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Quote:
Originally posted by Xillah
how do you know? chances are that your right but yu cant prove it/
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exactly
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29 Jan 2003, 02:34
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Last of the Officers
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Colour, damned yanks never could speek properly
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29 Jan 2003, 02:50
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Klaatu barada nikto
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Quote:
Originally posted by Phantom
Colour, damned yanks never could speek properly
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lol. So you pronounce it differently too? 
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29 Jan 2003, 02:55
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Can I just point out that american english is influenced by espanol, which does not use the ou but only the o, thus the color and not colour. The former is away one l away from your neck and other is correct according to written english, but in fine english fashion we steal words from other languages not conform our words to suit jonny foreigner, so color is not now nor ever will be the correct way of spelling it
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29 Jan 2003, 03:05
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AND THE WINNER OF THE MOST UNINTENTIONALLY FUNNY PRIZE OF THE YEAR GOES TO:
Quote:
Originally posted by Phantom
Colour, damned yanks never could speek properly
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29 Jan 2003, 03:05
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Klaatu barada nikto
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Quote:
Originally posted by -=Zyth=-
Can I just point out that american english is influenced by espanol, which does not use the ou but only the o, thus the color and not colour. The former is away one l away from your neck and other is correct according to written english, but in fine english fashion we steal words from other languages not conform our words to suit jonny foreigner, so color is not now nor ever will be the correct way of spelling it
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Actually, the colour->color mutation was mostly the result of Noah Webster and his efforts to 'simplify' spelling (most of which never caught on, but a few--like color--did), and not the influence of Spanish.
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29 Jan 2003, 03:23
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Quote:
Originally posted by Tactitus
lol. So you pronounce it differently too?
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29 Jan 2003, 03:26
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Last of the Officers
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Quote:
Originally posted by Tactitus
Actually, the colour->color mutation was mostly the result of Noah Webster and his efforts to 'simplify' spelling (most of which never caught on, but a few--like color--did), and not the influence of Spanish.
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Really? I always thought it was becuase the yanks were trying to distance themselves from their english ancesters as much as possible. So they chanced how they say some words, and called other things by different names
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29 Jan 2003, 03:29
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Quote:
Originally posted by Phantom
Really? I always thought it was becuase the yanks were trying to distance themselves from their english ancesters as much as possible. So they chanced how they say some words, and called other things by different names
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no, that's british ego speaking.
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29 Jan 2003, 03:42
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Klaatu barada nikto
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Quote:
Originally posted by Phantom
Really? I always thought it was becuase the yanks were trying to distance themselves from their english ancesters as much as possible.
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That may have been a part of Webster's motivation to simplify the spellings, but since most of them never caught on Americans obviously weren't changing their spelling just to make a statement.
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Webster wasn't particularly interested in changing the pronunciations--though he was in favor of standardizing them; his spelling changes were mostly aimed towards a more phonetic spelling.
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29 Jan 2003, 04:56
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Quote:
Originally posted by Sandsnake
exactly
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so since the church bases itself on belief rather than fact i shall believe God intented it to be spelt colour.
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29 Jan 2003, 05:33
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I tend to pronounce color as col-lor and colour as col-ler
Both spellings are correct in their respective countries, so I vote color, knowing I will be outvoted by the European majority here.
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29 Jan 2003, 06:44
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Quote:
Originally posted by xtothez
Do you play football or soccer?
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Football is an english word. Soccer is english slang.
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29 Jan 2003, 06:52
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Quote:
Originally posted by Nixjim
I tend to pronounce color as col-lor and colour as col-ler
Both spellings are correct in their respective countries, so I vote color, knowing I will be outvoted by the European majority here.
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i pronounce colour and color the same 'cul-ler'. a 'col-ler' is the thing on your shirt 
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29 Jan 2003, 08:12
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Center.
You spell it "Centre". That spelling really makes no sense.
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29 Jan 2003, 09:21
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It annoys me when people say "OMG AMERICANS SPEEL IT LIKE 'COLOR' WHEN ACTUALLY ITS 'COLOUR' STOP DECIMATING OUR LANGUAGE TWATS".
The reason they spell it like that is because it was put in the English dictionary after the settlers had gone to America, and prior to us making the dictionary, we spelt it like that.
Or so I'm told.
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29 Jan 2003, 12:11
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Color = American ==> wrongness
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29 Jan 2003, 12:25
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colour cos americans are wankers
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29 Jan 2003, 12:40
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As an aside, why do Americans use (their own) different values for miles, gallons etc?
Roll on global decimalisation!
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29 Jan 2003, 16:23
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Klaatu barada nikto
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Quote:
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Center.
You spell it "Centre". That spelling really makes no sense.
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It makes sense once you realize that's how the French spell it. You can argue that French spelling shouldn't have any influence on English spelling but that argument was lost about a thousand years ago.
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29 Jan 2003, 16:39
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Quote:
Originally posted by Phatom
Really? I always thought it was becuase the yanks were trying to distance themselves from their english ancesters as much as possible. So they chanced how they say some words, and called other things by different names
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There is an American-origin word for people like you, and it is 'moron'.
I voted both.
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29 Jan 2003, 17:05
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I'm pretty sure Petabyte wasn't an original English word - should we ban that?
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29 Jan 2003, 17:09
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Quote:
Originally posted by Iniluki
Some people have changed the spelling of that.
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So what? Are you suggesting we should all go back to speaking Middle English, or something?
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29 Jan 2003, 17:10
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Surely you can see that "color" makes more sense than "colour"? What's that "u" for? Nothing! It's wasting valuable space.
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29 Jan 2003, 17:14
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Yanks or Brits it seems.
I don't really care. As long as you try remain with either one of them in your texts insteard of changing in the midway.
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29 Jan 2003, 17:16
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Originally posted by Iniluki
its our language and we haven't changed it,
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Nobody owns languages. You can't legislate on them. They are uncontrolled entities. Live with it.
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29 Jan 2003, 17:17
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Quote:
Originally posted by Sub
Surely you can see that "color" makes more sense than "colour"? What's that "u" for? Nothing! It's wasting valuable space.
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because the word is said colUr imagine if it was just color it`d sound like you wre talking about a shirt collor (No i cant spell that)
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29 Jan 2003, 17:44
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Of course Petabyte is an original english word: where else would it come from?
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29 Jan 2003, 17:45
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Quote:
Originally posted by hinch
because the word is said colUr imagine if it was just color it`d sound like you wre talking about a shirt collor (No i cant spell that)
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color blue
shirt collar
Different spelling and pronunciation
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29 Jan 2003, 17:48
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Quote:
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Surely you can see that "color" makes more sense than "colour"? What's that "u" for? Nothing! It's wasting valuable space.
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You're wasting valuable space posting this!!
Then again so is the rest of the lot, wtf does it matter anyways? :/
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29 Jan 2003, 17:49
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Its colour
DOWN WITH THE ENGLISH
DOWN WITH THE TEA
DOWN WITH THE U!!!!
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29 Jan 2003, 18:41
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What the ****? It's "colour" you daft yankees.
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29 Jan 2003, 23:50
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Quote:
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Of course Petabyte is an original english word: where else would it come from?
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Greek.
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29 Jan 2003, 23:53
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Quote:
Originally posted by Marilyn Manson
Nobody owns languages. You can't legislate on them. They are uncontrolled entities. Live with it.
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the french do, but then, they are french
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29 Jan 2003, 23:53
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America has done a good job at fixing certain words that were spelled wrongly, but theyve got the 'colour' one wrong.
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29 Jan 2003, 23:54
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Quote:
Originally posted by Marilyn Manson
Nobody owns languages. You can't legislate on them. They are uncontrolled entities. Live with it.
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Then why are certain words 'illegal'?
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30 Jan 2003, 00:25
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Quote:
Originally posted by Nodrog
America has done a good job at fixing certain words that were spelled wrongly, but theyve got the 'colour' one wrong.
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Next we'll fix your poor word usage.
Windshield instead of windscreen
Trunk instead of boot
Soccer instead of football
Elevator instead of lift
When you master this leason we'll give you another one.
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