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Originally Posted by Dr_PsychoMW
The British version is Colour, but the American is Color. American's did this to alot of words like flavor (flavour) honor (honour) and armor (armour)
Me being American, I spell it color.
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From what I saw, it was actually the British who "did this." I could easily be wrong, but what I saw impilied that the "ou" instead of "o" came into British English in the 19th century.
Oh, and I hate the damn Blue Horrors, the American state flags that consist of a blue field and the state seal, or similar indistinguishable symbol. WHAT THE HELL. Can you be creative, maybe? Make something distinctive? Easy to reproduce? Textless? You worthless monkeys. Does the word "VEXILLOGY" mean anything to you? Well, now that I think of it, that probably doesn't. Fine. does "GOOD FLAG" mean anything?
I also don't really like the roughly fifty billion national and provincial flags that are simply the British Red or Blue ensign defaced. Fortunately, the US one (Hawaii) has nothing to do with me and is really pretty different with all the red white and blue stripes; and the US flag (probably derived from the Red ensign; or the British East India Company flag (I think that's the one, I'm not sure)) is distinctive enough to be good. Most of the other ones are none of my business, so [shrugs].
