I spell it like this

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
 
I follow the American way. I see the 'u' in some words useless. Though, I prefer to write 'mum' rather than 'mom', so yes that's it.
 
I spell colour, harbour, behaviour, centre, etc.
The words centre, and theatre was obtained from the French language.

 
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...
 
I always get BE and AE mixed up and cannot really assign their ways of spelling to them (it's just too long ago that I learned this at school), so I usually just use a random way. An exception are words like "defense", which I just find weird when spelled with "-ce".
 
I spell them the right way, AKA the American way.
All of you British people are stupid.
The letter U in all of those words is very unneeded, and don't even get me started on all the words with the switched letters R and E (centre).



Just kidding, but obviously since I live in America, I spell them the American way. Americans who spell them the British way are lame and try way too hard.
 
I use the American spelling because that's what I grew up with and that's what's been drilled into my brain over the years.
 
Since I live in America most of my spelling is American spelling, but I picked up a lot of my spelling from books and sometimes a non-American standard spelling popped up and I ingrained that particular version of a word. That's why I'll instinctively write center as center but threatre as theatre. Sometimes I even have to stop and think about how I would spell some words, like defen(c/s)e, since I know both are correct, but can't always remember which is correct where.
 
I always use the American English spellings, being from the States.

When I was little, though, I spelled gray as grey. I couldn't tell you if it's because I thought grey looked cooler (it kind of does), or if I misheard the a as an e. I'm not a very good speller without a spellcheck, so I wouldn't be surprised if it was the latter.
 
I go with the Australian way (which happens to be the British one). Except as a kid Pokemon made me think words were spelt like "center" and "color". :(
 
I stick with European English as it's the original and it's the vernacular around here.
 
Inkpuddle said:
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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^Exactly. American English FTW!

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

IMO, the "u" in "ou" is pointless and just unnecessarily draws out the word's spelling, the "tre" spelling could be pronounced "tray" as opposed to "ter" being pronounced "turr," and the (s/z) switch makes z seem like a useless letter (plus I would pronounce that like "realice")... However, "theatre" looks a bit more elegant than "theater" (though that's the only case of a word getting beautified by the British English spelling)

LOL...just yesterday I read on ZeldaWiki that someone from the Nintendo Wars Wiki developed coding so that everyone could select a certain spelling preference that could override the other in their account spellings, so they would never have to see the other "English's" spelling again. Apparently it was an issue bugging a lot of people. :cer_laugh: See it here: https://www.niwanetwork.org/forums/index.php?topic=415.msg7283#msg7283
 
I follow British English. I feel that replacing the 's' witu a 'z' is pretty unnecessary.
 
I spell things mostly the traditional way. Colour, favourite, realise, organise, mum etc. To me, some American spellings just look weird (eg. spelling defence as defense and grey as gray).

I'd like to point out:

Metre is a unit of measurement while meter is a device used for measuring something, for example, "I ran a couple of metres so I could see what the reading was on the electricity meter".

Same goes for centre and center. Centre is a gathering place (for example, a Pokémon Centre) while center is the middle of something. "I went to stand in the center of the Pokémon Centre."

I think most people don't really care about the difference, but I'm just throwing it out there.
 
I'm Australian so I spell things like an idiot... adding extra letters and jumbling them up to be different like Centre instead of Center which would make more sense! Or favourite instead of favorite, mum not mom or organise not organized blah blah
 
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