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Colour or Color – Which Is Correct? (grammarly.com)
2 points by app4soft on Nov 8, 2019 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



I write 'colour' most of the time. But when I comment on US websites, I use 'color'.

I suppose that's a case of 'When in Rome ....'.

Still, there are some words whose meaning changes completely whether you use US or British spelling. In British English, the US-spelling 'pedophile' becomes British-spelling 'paedophile'. But British-word 'pedophile' means 'somebody who loves feet' (a foot-fetishist), from the same Greek root as 'pedal','pedestrian','centipede', etc.




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