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>Brits spell color "colour"
>Brits spell harbor "harbour"

How do you spell "our" then?
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ouur
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back before /int/ had flags I'd pretend to be British and make fun of Americans for spelling things wrong

I miss those days but finding working proxies is too much work to bother with
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They spell thing different wow neat
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>>57856765
>>57856779
It's not funny if have samefag to tell a joke
faggot
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>>57856765
This is why Americans spell our "or"
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>>57856765
ouer
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Well their multiculturalism has made it clear they can spell "our", but it also means they can spell "disaster"
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>>57856882
why would you ruin a perfectly good thread like this?
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>>57856765
you're the ones spelling "colour" and "harbour" wrong
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>>57856882
What the fuck

>tfw he's probably 1/32nd German to boot
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>Yanks spell flour "flor"
>Yanks spell sour "sor"
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>>57857995
kek
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>>57857995
>Limey's spell center "centre"
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>>57857623
>English: color
>British dialect: colour
>Latin: color
What are you talking about? English spelling is closer to the Latin root.
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>>57858108
>english
>latin root

????
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>>57856848
Imagine if British were the English standard.
Gameboy Color would be called something like Recreationlad Colour
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>>57858230
>recreationlad

Hearty chuckle
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ward = word
word = werd
forward = forwerd

Explain this shit.
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>>57858870
Because the English language is stupid
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>>57856791
t. newfag
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Why is 'o' an 'ah' in burger English?
>orange=ahringe
>God=gahd
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>>57856765
Americans spell "school" "shooting range"
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>>57856765
Americans spelled them this way until Noah Webster decided to create an unnecessary difference between our languages.
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>>57863549
Do you not know what variant spellings are?
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>>57858108
we got those latin words through norman french tyrone
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>>57863144
That's Gaddafi the best joke I've ever heard :D
real bomb :DD
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>>57863144

That's interesting, because that's the exact way Libyans spell "country".
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>>57863144
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>>57858108

>English spelling is closer to the Latin root
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>>57858230

>Imagine if British were the English standard.

but, it is?
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Americans speak English
Brits speak British
English speak British

deal with it
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>>57856825
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My favourite colour is blue
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>this """""our"""""" that
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>>57872652
>one """""hor""""" left
>then I can """""zay""""" it
>damn this lemon is """""zor"""""
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>Pineapple
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Webster failed, but he had the right idea.
English needs something to standardize spelling. I don't know what else to call it besides phonetic rot, but it's so damn stupid to have such misleading and nonsensical spellings like "colonel".
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