Cacao just wanted to provoke a meaningless discussion again. so please dont feed the troll and write color/colour as you want, please.

I'm from America and I spell it "colour".

stahp.


Side note: English is a "Germanic" language but over 50% of English words have their origins in Latin, so there is a convincing case to be made that English is not in fact a Germanic language and is instead an amalgamated language of Germanic and Latin roots. Thus, there could be considered to exist two (almost exactly alike) dialects of English, one based on Germanic roots, and the other based on Latin roots. In this case "Color" would be the Germanic version, while "colour" would be the Latin version, but both would be correct, in different dialects.

All of the English speaking world and former British colonies spell it like colour.

False.

Edited 11/5/2015 03:05:24

Side note: English is a "Germanic" language but over 50% of English words have their origins in Latin, so there is a convincing case to be made that English is not in fact a Germanic language and is instead an amalgamated language of Germanic and Latin roots. Thus, there could be considered to exist two (almost exactly alike) dialects of English, one based on Germanic roots, and the other based on Latin roots. In this case "Color" would be the Germanic version, while "colour" would be the Latin version, but both would be correct, in different dialects.

English is a Germanic tongue, there's no doubt on that. It evolved from the truer Old English, but was gutted by the French-Normans and to this day has a nefaste amount of backstabber words. But it's Germanic, the wordstock is mostly Italic, though. And colo(u)r is a Latin root in both spellings - from French couleur. Hue, shade, and cast are the Anglish (what you talk about, truer Germanic English) words for colour, each from Germanic roots.

All of the English speaking world and former British colonies spell it like colour.

False.

Well. obviously excluding America (and Liberia). Sometimes Canada spells things the American way as well.

What I meant to say was that color was a more Germanic spelling of the word.

Actually, "color" is the spelling that tries to emulate Latin (color) (think octopus/octupi), while colour is the one that stays with the French/Norman (col(o)ur).

Colour*

Cos the meaning of this thread was to ask a question, which was answered in the second post.

So what's the harm in having a harmless discussion afterwards? Or would you prefer we create a another thread for it?

American English is simply the lazy way to spell proper English. It's basically the equivalent of simplified Chinese (actually Mandarin)(and in this case American English) which is the short version of traditional Chinese (proper English). Just because the United States has one of the largest portion of English speakers (almost all of which are actually descendants of every other nation but England), doesn't mean you suddenly decide that American English is proper English. The name of the language, English, is derived from its country of origin, England, which has existed for anywhere up to 1000+ years.

England, at one point of its history ruled over one in four people on the planet. England, and England alone sets the standard for the English language, not some American who doesn't know what the letter 'u' is, or someone who feels the need to replace the appropriate 's' in worlds with a 'z' (e.g. realise) because he is allergic to the letter.

If English is defined by the majority of speakers, which is India, then only their use of English can be considered correct English, which, by the way, is still proper English.

Also, you changed the meaning of the thread by feeling the need to correct something, that didn't need correcting in the first place, because you're egotistical, and I mean you can't help it, after all you are just an American.

And it's football, for future references.

First of all its football not soccer.

Soccer came from 17th century England where there was a massive brutal game of football but over time they split up and one when into rugby and the other when into football but when they played it on the streets it was called socker.

The word "Soccer" comes from "Association Football" and is about as British as you can get. It's just a slang word. When spoken about professionally it's referred to as "football" though, of course. Americans seem to only use the slang term, but most likely because it's not very popular in their country, I'm pretty sure I've seen them use both words though.

Also non-natives, like most European countries, are taught British English not American English.

In Australia we have to call it soccer, becaus AFL is called footy, and if you call it football then we think you're talking about AFL (and some call Rugby football).

Soccer isn't really that big here

Yeah it's more of a South America, Europe and Africa thing

England, at one point of its history ruled over one in four people on the planet. England, and England alone sets the standard for the English language, not some American who doesn't know what the letter 'u' is, or someone who feels the need to replace the appropriate 's' in worlds with a 'z' (e.g. realise) because he is allergic to the letter.

That's not all fair to say. Realize and realise are both commonly used in Britain. And think about mirrour, which is now mirror.

Also, you changed the meaning of the thread by feeling the need to correct something, that didn't need correcting in the first place, because you're egotistical, and I mean you can't help it, after all you are just an American.

Do you think that's generalising?

Soccer came from 17th century England where there was a massive brutal game of football but over time they split up and one when into rugby and the other when into football but when they played it on the streets it was called socker.

Actually, IFAF recognises, I forget the original name from it, but that the first football came from China, more than 1500 years ago.

An interesting picture

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I know where it originated I'm saying how the word soccer cam around.