Where did "u" come from?
Created | Updated Jan 28, 2002
I'm probably not the first to address this anomaly, but I haven't seen any entries yet pertaining to this, so I will assume that I am (ooh, a run-on sentence!).
Once again the british show total disregard for the english language (I really can't think of any other instances, but I assume that it's safe to assume that there are indeed others)(however you know what they say about assuming, it makes a -something- out of u and me)(in hopes of keeping this entry g-rated) anyway... It appears that in the spelling of at least 6 words the british happen to think that they have the right to defy the dictionaries and add a "u", or to rearrange the letters. I actually think that I read somewhere that there are about 422 variations, but I'm not sure what they all are.
Like a true dictionary-abiding, proper english-speaking person, I have good humor, not humour, and wouldn't understand if told to go to the theatre. I will go to shopping centers, but wouldn't dare to be seen in a shopping centre, and when a women goes into labor, there's no need to spare the effort to fit a u between the o and r. I'll just list the other 2 because I can't think of any sufficiently clever ways to put them in sentence form. Not that I'm really impressed with my cleverness in using the first four.
The other two that I've been able to think of are:
-honor\honour
-color\colour
And I suppose that a logical thinking person would conclude that in a language called "english," by default, the English would indeed have the right to spell things however they wanted, and would therefore be right, but I will not be so presumptuous as to call myself logical (yes, I know... that was a dandy of a run-on).
Once again the british show total disregard for the english language (I really can't think of any other instances, but I assume that it's safe to assume that there are indeed others)(however you know what they say about assuming, it makes a -something- out of u and me)(in hopes of keeping this entry g-rated) anyway... It appears that in the spelling of at least 6 words the british happen to think that they have the right to defy the dictionaries and add a "u", or to rearrange the letters. I actually think that I read somewhere that there are about 422 variations, but I'm not sure what they all are.
Like a true dictionary-abiding, proper english-speaking person, I have good humor, not humour, and wouldn't understand if told to go to the theatre. I will go to shopping centers, but wouldn't dare to be seen in a shopping centre, and when a women goes into labor, there's no need to spare the effort to fit a u between the o and r. I'll just list the other 2 because I can't think of any sufficiently clever ways to put them in sentence form. Not that I'm really impressed with my cleverness in using the first four.
The other two that I've been able to think of are:
-honor\honour
-color\colour
And I suppose that a logical thinking person would conclude that in a language called "english," by default, the English would indeed have the right to spell things however they wanted, and would therefore be right, but I will not be so presumptuous as to call myself logical (yes, I know... that was a dandy of a run-on).
