Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?
On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 19:19 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 April 2006 11:50, Yu,Glen [Ontario] wrote:
> > Well said.
> >
> > And it's not just the UK. That's how it is in Canada as well. I'm not the
> > type to keep score, but I believe its 2-1 now?
>
> Not always. Canada goes both ways on the "er/re" and "our/or" conventions,
> and seems to be determined by preference of the author. Example off the top
> of my head would be signs pointing you to "CITY CENTER" one block and "CITY
> CENTRE" the next: Any other text on the first sign would use the Americanized
> spellings, the latter would use the Queen's dictionary. This doesn't seem to
> be limited to any particular timeframe, older signs using the Victoria
> typeface switch spellings as much the newer ones using the American-style
> Blue Highway typeface.
The hippie draft dodgers are taking over Canada, Americanizing
Canada?
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