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



On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 11:42:32PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> 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!

After slogging through this whole thread, finally, ROTFLMAO!

thanks

A

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