The native English-speakers that I work with are pretty evenly split between those who speak American English and those who speak British English. I have found that while I have mostly adopted American English spelling myself, I always write “behaviour” because a particular Brit I work with often talks about software behaviour.
As a non-native speaker I tend to mix the two. School taught me british spelling, internet taught me american. Colour is one of the words where I’ve always stuck with british spelling.
I’m always very annoyed by technical tools that stick to US spelling and that will consider “colour” to be a syntax error. I sometimes set up aliases to get rid of those.
I was super surprised when I learned that RuneScape got me stuck on the British spelling of Armour as a kid. Armour has a U in it and you cannot convince me otherwise!
The native English-speakers that I work with are pretty evenly split between those who speak American English and those who speak British English. I have found that while I have mostly adopted American English spelling myself, I always write “behaviour” because a particular Brit I work with often talks about software behaviour.
As a non-native speaker I tend to mix the two. School taught me british spelling, internet taught me american. Colour is one of the words where I’ve always stuck with british spelling.
I think I was just a rebellious teen but I (an american English speaker from my earliest) always spell colour with the u. No idea why
I do that too, and I blame Neopets.
I’m always very annoyed by technical tools that stick to US spelling and that will consider “colour” to be a syntax error. I sometimes set up aliases to get rid of those.
I was super surprised when I learned that RuneScape got me stuck on the British spelling of Armour as a kid. Armour has a U in it and you cannot convince me otherwise!
I use both spellings. Armour: The kind you wear. Armor: The kind you drive.