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Whats your hot take on something that doesnt matter at all?
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The letter "u" belongs in neighbour, harbour, savour, etc.
No u!
Today, I know what true enlightenment feels like
I prefer the US spelling of these words. The U doesn't do anything phonetically and was not present in the Latin from which many of the words derive.
The native English-speakers that I work with are pretty evenly split between those who speak American English and those who speak British English. I have found that while I have mostly adopted American English spelling myself, I always write "behaviour" because a particular Brit I work with often talks about software behaviour.
As a non-native speaker I tend to mix the two. School taught me british spelling, internet taught me american. Colour is one of the words where I've always stuck with british spelling.
I think I was just a rebellious teen but I (an american English speaker from my earliest) always spell colour with the u. No idea why
I do that too, and I blame Neopets.