Yeah. When I was a kid, I went to a private school in a small coastal tow which had retained a great bit of English culture and language. SO my spelling and pronunciation stuck out like a sore thumb when I moved to a public school way up in the Appalachain hills! (centre, colour, flavour, etc,)
I've always spelled it colour!? Maybe us hillfolk look a little more positively on language of the land of our origin!
As a point of reference, all my family names are good English (and Socts-Irish) ones. Bentley, Eaton, Hamilton, Reeves, Norman, Brice, Whitehurst, etc.
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12 years ago
It's because people in Great Britain think they're better than we are!
Reply 11 years ago
If we didn't exist, you guys wouldn't either.
Reply 11 years ago
We would exist we would just be speaking with a different accent
Reply 11 years ago
And language. And culture. And basic way of life. You do the maths.
Reply 11 years ago
Yep. Thank god for 1776
Reply 11 years ago
WOOT 1776!!! ****but I still spell it coloUr*****
Reply 11 years ago
LOL
Reply 11 years ago
Yeah. When I was a kid, I went to a private school in a small coastal tow which had retained a great bit of English culture and language. SO my spelling and pronunciation stuck out like a sore thumb when I moved to a public school way up in the Appalachain hills! (centre, colour, flavour, etc,)
Reply 11 years ago
Haha. What about theatre?
Reply 11 years ago
Of course!
Reply 11 years ago
YAY AHM THMART
Reply 11 years ago
I would exist. I would just probably be speaking Italian, or German =P
Reply 11 years ago
Greater. Not better. :p
Reply 11 years ago
Agreed. Otherwise they'd be Better Brittain!
Reply 11 years ago
British you mean
Reply 12 years ago
Well you are our theoretical "children", as parents we have to control your crazy spelling
Reply 12 years ago
More like escapees...
Reply 12 years ago
escapees from the prision of "putting u's in words" :D
Reply 12 years ago
but the place we are in now is still the prison
Reply 11 years ago
Gmod?
Reply 12 years ago
LOL!
12 years ago
i use colour, its the proper way to spell it
Reply 12 years ago
nah, its color.
Reply 11 years ago
Colour. British spelling. Americans can't spell properly :P
Reply 11 years ago
Unnecessary bump was unnecessary.
Reply 11 years ago
He says, further bumping the topic. Much like I am doing now.
Reply 11 years ago
We're more for conserving our letters for necessary use: colour, is bad enough, but programme is over the top.....
Reply 11 years ago
Color is spelled correctly. Firefox says so.
Reply 11 years ago
Yes but you are using the incorrect US english dictionary. Learn to use the correct UK dictionary.
Reply 11 years ago
No. I used the correct American spelling. You used the Correct English spelling.
Reply 12 years ago
Colour!
11 years ago
It also says that "Instructable" and "Instructables" are not words. It recommends changing it to "instruct able".
11 years ago
I was taught to spell it Colour, but apparently Color is how most people spell it, probably just because it's easier and it's how the brits spell it.
11 years ago
Armour not armor too :)
Reply 11 years ago
CRAP your right
12 years ago
Well, not only do they spell all their words wrong, they can't even get the right dictionary...
Reply 11 years ago
LOL
12 years ago
ps, its not showing up as an error.
12 years ago
ignore it!
12 years ago
It's called "English"...
Reply 12 years ago
But... why? The instructables HQ is in america, isn't it?
Reply 12 years ago
Aye but you might have the wrong version of FF dictionary for your area, granted it's technically the right way.
Reply 12 years ago
He's checking it with the Instructables Spellchecker; Firefox has nothing to do with it.
Reply 12 years ago
Do you speak it?
Reply 12 years ago
One tries...
Reply 12 years ago
Ahahaha!
5 stars!
Reply 12 years ago
I've always spelled it colour!? Maybe us hillfolk look a little more positively on language of the land of our origin! As a point of reference, all my family names are good English (and Socts-Irish) ones. Bentley, Eaton, Hamilton, Reeves, Norman, Brice, Whitehurst, etc.
12 years ago
Kiteman must have hacked instructables.
I should have expected it
Reply 12 years ago
Kiteman? With hacking skills? Stranger things have happened...
12 years ago
It's colour...