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Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?



On Tuesday 11 April 2006 22:53, Lubos Vrbka wrote:
> Kent West wrote:
> >>> On Tuesday 11 April 2006 11:43, sanchez@mytrashmail.com wrote:
> >>>> Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?
> >
> > It's kind of like putting a flag in a new land, to claim it as belonging
> > to the UK. They were going to put the K in there also, but "coloukr"
> > just didn't quite work.
>
> you certainly mean _K_onsole, _K_onqueror, etc - there it works fine ;-)

That's KonqueroUr!

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