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Originally Posted by HarryT
There is, however, a serious point to the "-our" spellings ("colour", "favour", "armour", etc) that you dislike. The "-our" represents a different sound to a simple "-or" and therefore there is a rational basis for it to spelled differently.
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I actually don't dislike it at all (although a few online Australian friends and I get on each other about spelling things "wrong"). Now I am trying to think of that sound difference of which you speak. Can you provide some example words? I know there are a few differences in pronunciation of the short "o" sound in American English that not everyone can hear. I just remember graduate school, working on research on phonics with a professor who could not hear the difference between the |o| sounds in dog and bottle. One was a more open sound and one more closed. To her (Boston born and raised) they were one and the same. Some Southerners pronounce pin and pen the exact same way, to give another example. I'm guessing there are examples like that in all languages, as dialects alter, however minutely, the sounds of some letters.
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Originally Posted by Donnageddon
GraceKrispy, are you admitting to being a facetioust?
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I've admitted nothing! *stands on box* I am not a croo... uh, facetioust!