Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?
On Sat, 2006-04-15 at 11:45 -0400, Manaen Schlabach wrote:
> Not to drift too far from all this fascinating political speculation
> but it looks like we have Noah Webster to thank for the American
> spelling of the word color. The word color was originally borrowed
> from the French but Americans wanted to go back in this particular
> case to the more phonetic greek.
We should have gone all the way to simplified spelling.
> Perhaps Americans wanted to
> distinguish themselves from the French. From wikipedia:
>
> "French (or indirectly, Greek) – color, Gk. διαλογος → Fr. couleur,
> dialogue → British English colour, dialogue."
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelling_differences
>
> Since the greek spelling was first perhaps it is the more correct of the two.
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