I spell it like this

Zet

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.


    I didn't see any other previous threads that can still be kept alive.
     
    I spell stuff like color, favorite, center, and realize.

    That is how I was taught:)
     
    I hate the "American" spellings.

    I prefer "colour" to "color," "centre" to "center." So on and so forth. The original words just make more sense, so as I find them, I tend to use those. Another example, I guess is spilt vs spilled, spelt vs spelled.
     
    I spell them as I was taught them; colour, centre, realise etc.

    For the longest time I swore that 'definitely' was spelled with an 'a' instead of an 'i' before the t :/
     
    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
     
    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.
     
    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.^^
     
    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
     
    I spell things from where I am from. So colour, centre, favourite, favour, realize etc.
     
    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.
     
    For me the American way is the only acceptable way, and you British are spelling it all wrong! >;O

    Seriously though...sometimes the way I naturally misspell a word happens to be the British way of spelling it. x3
     
    I spell words by... ease of writing them, I guess. I use center, not centre, colour, not color, but it varies :D
     
    Seeing as I'm an American and the product of the fine American education system, I'm more apt to use Webster's English than the British spellings. XD
     
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