A Question For All Non-Americans

[DOMiNIC]

A Question For All Non Americans Here On Name Pros.

The English Spelling Of Color is Colour.

The USA Spelling is Color.

How Do you Spell Color/Colour in Your Country?

Please State Your Nationality in Replies?

Thanks In Advance.

 

[maxxwebb]

In Canada, we tend to use a lot of "double Ls" too.

Like > travelling

I think in the US, they use only one L for these types of words? > traveling?

Cheers (which rhymes with beers, something else we do a little differently "up here."

 

[Jim_Westergren]

In Swedish färg or färger for plural.

In english for me it is color. That't how it is on the HTML language.

 

[linker]

Canadian and I spell it Colour

also Favor is wrong, Favour is right

also Center is wrong, Centre is right

and so on...

this site has a neat listing of the different spellings:

http://www.cornerstoneword.com/misc/cdneng/cdneng.htm

 

[Ray]

Colour is verb in English btw

 

[Joseph]

irish - colour

 

[seeker]

I use both.
but ask yourself this question.

if color.com and colour.com were dropping in an auction, which do you think would commend a higher price?
my bet would be color.

 

[fonzie_007]

There is little doubt Britian had lots of overseas influence; however, it is not a big shocker people in the UK, India, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand spell it "colour." After all that is where British influence has been greatest. It would be interesting to ask people who live in the Carribean, Phillipeanes, and Guam how they spell color. My chips would be riding on "color." Of course, these were/are the places the US has/had the most influence.

 

[zanzan]

seeker: it depends i think, since each country as its own way of spelling

Btw Singapore: Colour..

 

[skrilla]

im from the states, but iv lived in canada most of my life. i was taught to spell it colour here in canada, but over the years and from living in the states allot i spell it color. :/

 

[DOMiNIC]

Hi Dominic, i'm glad you've proved your US friend wrong on this one

Hopefully it will teach him not to dismiss the other 29 countries with English as their official language. Especially when choosing a domain!

Incidently, the countries are (in order of population):

India
United States
Nigeria
Philippines
United Kingdom
South Africa
Canada
Kenya
Uganda
Ghana
Sri Lanka
Australia
Cameroon
Zimbabwe
Malawi
Zambia
Sierra Leone
Papua New Guinea
Singapore
New Zealand
Republic of Ireland
Liberia
Jamaica
Namibia
Lesotho
Botswana
The Gambia
Mauritius
Swaziland
Trinidad and Tobago

Thanks Birdman5 - Very Helpful

 

[ThreeD]

Color all the way Sometimes I get confused though and write colour..

PS: Why is this posted in the domain names discussion forum anyways? :hehe:

 

[Badger]

Breeeeeeakkkk Rooooooom

Jeez, whos moderating this forum

 

[xtremest]

I'll reg both :hehe:

 

[sdtrader]

I'll reg both :hehe:

Will you be paying by cheque or check?

 

[faisj]

Colour = Kleur (Dutch) (The Netherlands)

 

[l0zo]

Man ,dominic i think you gave me negative rep points for posting "New Zealand = colour" I got a dark blue square for my latest rep points.

 

[gazzip]

Man ,dominic i think you gave me negative rep points for posting "New Zealand = colour" I got a dark blue square for my latest rep points.

:lol: I got three of them with - thanks for being helpful LOL did'nt know it was bad rep tho !

 

[l0zo]

Im not sure if dark blue means it is bad but the rest of my rep points are bright green, so it looked kinda out of place.

 

[wasistdas]

In Russian - tsvet.
In Ukrainian - colir or kolir
as for the English word in both countries both version are used.

 

[Ber|Art]

Color = Kleur (Dutch) (The Netherlands)