I spell it like this

Started by Zet October 7th, 2010 6:13 PM
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Zet

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How do you spell certain words? for example there is:

color and colour
center and centre
realize and realise.

for me I usually spell words the way I was taught them like colour, centre.


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I spell some words the everywhere-but-America way: theatre, colour, favourite, Mum, centre, etc. It bothers my teachers to no end since they can't do anything 'cause it is a correct spelling of the word. :3
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When this question is raised it always seems to me like a way to make a thread effectively asking for people's locations without getting it closed. So, given mine, no guesses necessary as to my preference; still, to close any misassumptions, that'd be British English. Most British people themselves seem unable to get their own language entirely right though due to the immense Americanisation brought about since the onset of television, so it's a bit of a lost cause. Even I didn't know the spelling of 'chequer' until looking up 'checker'.

I still think that people in any continent that isn't North/South America being taught English as a second language at school should learn British English, since that's the origin of it as a whole; but I ultimately can't blame them if they don't, it's like insisting that people learning Chinese be taught Cantonese rather than Mandarin.
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Since I am Canadian, I spell everything the Canadian way. It was just how I was taught.

Behaviour, Colour, Centre, etc.

I do like them better, but that's probably because that is the way I learned them.^^


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color and colour
center and centre
realize and realise
mom and mom

I'm from New Zealand so you know my spelling. Though I spell them the american way when I'm online and offline I spell it like all the words on the right


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I was taught the American spellings, so naturally I prefer them. Whenever I see the word "centre," part of me always wants to pronounce it "cen-tray." And I find that extra "u" in most of the alternate spellings to be pretty pointless, but that's just me.

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I prefer colour, favourite, etc..

BUT I've never spelled them that way, and I wasn't ever taught to.

If I started doing it randomly it would be weird.



Plus, Firefox says they're misspelled that way, and it bugs me. xD


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British English most of the time, although it does vary. I usually stick with 'favourite' and 'colour', but I will vary between 'centre' and 'center', because I don't think I was taught any specific way of spelling the word, so both of them come naturally to me. I taught myself to use s in 'realise' and other similar words when I realised that was the British way, but before then I'd use a z just because when speaking the word it sounds like a z phonetically.

But usually I use British. It annoys me when Americans tell me I'm spelling something incorrectly, when it's actually correct, so I do make a conscious effort to try and write entirely in British English. I'm just that pretentious.

All languages change over time though, and English itself is largely derived from other languages, so I don't really see a problem with it being changed. Although I don't see the need for it, what made some American suddenly decide it would be cool to remove the u from colour? It just seems pointless to have "American English" and "British English" it should be just "English" and everyone should speak and write in the same manner for convenience. Although apparently it's a better idea to change it...