Color vs colour

It's color in American-English and colour in actual English p).

Whether you would be picked up for spelling it 'wrong' for your region would depend on how mean the person assessing it is. However I would think most would accept either spelling.

 

I think it's correct as long as you're consistent - like, if you spell color as colour, you just have to make sure to use English spelling throughout the rest of the work. That's what I remember, anyway.

 

Color. 'Murica!

Maybe it's because I grew up around the American spelling, but the added U in words like armour, honour, etc. seems to weigh it down a bit. I know it's abstract to think about, but like one would pronounce the U in the word and make it sound a little different.

 

Well it would just depend on your teacher. They are both correct but if your teacher's real anal he or she could mark it wrong. It's just like gray or grey they are the same depending where you are from you could use either and it would be grammatically correct.

 

I prefer to spell it with a u as well...I fancy it makes me seem potentially British, which I think would be a fun thing to be.

 

I like to use the American spelling for color and armor, etc. Whenever I say colour, it sounds like CUL-OUR. Maybe that's just my redneck speaking...

But sometimes I like to write out armour, like Cortosis-weaved armour on my Sith Lord roleplaying character...

 

It isn't widely used in America, but in Britain and Australia, using color and armor without the u is considered weird.

Yes, I quite like the way armour looks with a u.

 

Even though I was born in the US, I prefer "colour"..I really prefer Canadian/British/Normal English spellings over American....do not know why we have to be so different in that respect lol

 

Consistency is the key, as it's been said. Just like if you decide to use the serial comma or not, it's your choice; just make sure you're constant.

 

ever since moving to USA, I missed spelling with a U

 

I've been curious about whether Australian graders will be sticklers about my American spelling and grammar when I study there next semester. The differences are minor enough that I doubt many English speakers care about it either way.

 

I've maybe had 2-4 corrections on papers for the extra "u." I have been doing it for at least ten years.

 

I never knew there were different spellings before I was introduced to the internet! Then I found myself alternating between color and colour...mainly because I spoke to a lot of American friends online. I even said 'mom' instead of 'mum' or 'mother' just to dispel confusion and questions.

I now restrict myself to only the British English spellings because I'd probably get my college work flagged up if I were to use 'color' or 'favorite'. I think it's stricter here in regards to using alternative spellings, possibly because it's the originating country of the English language (as far as I know anyway).

In regards to ease of typing, I prefer American spellings, so maybe that's why I used them in the past.

 

I think colour is pronounced differently (like the Spanish 'color') in some parts of America but I'm not sure: I'd need to speak to an American. On the other hand, honour is pronounced more or less the same, so the U there is purely orthographical.

I always feel a bit sorry for everywhere else when it's called 'British spelling'. It should rather be 'rest of the world spelling', since the US is the only country that has such spellings to my knowledge (I get the impression that Canada uses a mixture of the two).

Both spellings are perfectly understood/recognised so it shouldn't really matter anyway!