Favorite or Favourite?

Ayselipera

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    So how do you spell favorite? Do you leave out the 'u' making it American English or do you add the 'u' in causing it to become British English?

    I always spell it as, 'favorite'. I actually thought for a while that spelling it as 'favourite' was the wrong spelling. Which is what sort of made me think of asking this question.
     
    I always spell it as "favourite", for no apparent reason. I also like to use "colour" instead of "color".
    /random.
     
    i'm american, so i spell it as "favorite" i've never actually seen it spelled like that before..
     
    Favorite cause I'm American. :0 Color/Colour LOL
     
    Thanks to me growing up in America, I say 'favorite', and 'color'.

    Even though I've always thought that the other versions looked better somehow.
     
    Well I am Canadian, so I add the 'u' in favourite, colour, honour, etc. That's actually the proper way to spell it here. According to my English teacher (xD) if you go to university and spell it without the 'u' here, they'll mark it as a spelling mistake.
     
    Being an American and having been taught the lexicon of noah Webster in grade school, I spell it "favorite". I also use "color", "honor", "flavor", "theater", "center", and "liter"
     
    Timbjerr said:
    Being an American and having been taught the lexicon of noah Webster in grade school, I spell it "favorite". I also use "color", "honor", "flavor", "theater", "center", and "liter"
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    Don't forget "license", "recognize", "dialog", and "defense".

    I'm American, so I use the American English form.
     
    Timbjerr said:
    Being an American and having been taught the lexicon of noah Webster in grade school, I spell it "favorite". I also use "color", "honor", "flavor", "theater", "center", and "liter"
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    I'm an American, so I think it becomes rather obvious that I, in the majority of the case, spell specific words that have multiple, yet similar spelling formats to what is standard to America. I would like to state that there are two words that were listed by Timbjerr that I spell differently than traditional American English. They are theatre and centre simply because they seem to look more artistic like that. As for the others, adding an extra u somewhere in the word seems rather pointless and really makes me pronounce each of the words differently in one way or another.
     
    Favourite, labour, harbour, honour, etc.

    Australia, yo.

    The funny part is only America (well, close enough) denies the U.
     
    Thanks to living in the United States for over ten years, I would spell "favorite" instead of "favourite." I wonder what it'll be like to one day add a "u" into all those words....
     
    English comes from England, so the English spellings always take precedence.

    Chequer, liquorice; people tend to forget those. Let's not forget many whole words are different too, pants here are men's briefs so you all look like idiots when you say it.
     
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