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Dfiesl | 2 years ago

A word of note: In British English "color" is spelt "colour"

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Brajeshwar|2 years ago

One of the things UK front-end developers really hate is they have to use "color" instead of "colour" to write CSS. :-)

tescocles|2 years ago

I have always found it amusing that CSS does not accept both "color" and "colour" even though it accepts both "gray" and "grey"

Dfiesl|2 years ago

Haha yes it pains me every time too ;)

netsharc|2 years ago

Hah, that should be a trivial transpiler rule to add to one's web development build pipeline...

anadalakra|2 years ago

I'm based in the US, where it's spelled without the "u". Quite a few examples of this spelling difference - humo(u)r, behavio(u)r etc. Oh and "spelt" is "spelled". Isn't English fun! :)

stouset|2 years ago

Even weirder, as a Native American English speaker, I would have spelt that word this way in only this context, but in other contexts it’s spelled this way.

Maybe this is my own idiosyncrasy though and not what others would do. I’ve never even thought about it until just now.

gizajob|2 years ago

It cold be a real labour if yo’re not used to it.

EE84M3i|2 years ago

It took me until I was 30 to learn that Brits spell enroll as enrol.

globular-toast|2 years ago

And also the two vowel sounds are the same?

Dfiesl|2 years ago

I think there's a slight difference in sound of the "o" and the "ou", it probably depends on your accent though.