Why do some people spell color like I do and others spell it colour?

Flynn_17

Because "color" is the American spelling, and "colour" is the British spelling. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelling_differences Jul 12 06, 7:45 AM

zbeckabee

American spellings, such as center, color, and traveler, were introduced, although often not created, by Noah Webster (An American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828), who was a strong proponent of spelling reform for a variety of reasons, both philological and nationalistic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelling_differences Jul 12 06, 8:45 AM

lanfranco

Actually, the spelling of "colour" was derived from early Anglo-French (that is, Norman). The original Latin was "color." So says the etymology for the word in the online OED. Jul 12 06, 8:56 AM