RE: Is it armour or armor? Is is color or colour?

From: Glen Closson (glen_closson@earthlink.net)
Date: Fri Oct 21 2005 - 19:41:15 PDT

What about color and colour? The French sneaking in again? :)

You're right about the dates making no sense day/month/year vs.
month/day/year.

But then again, our standard of measurement, the foot, is based on some dead
king's actual foot. I think it was a British king at that. Oh, well,
moving right along...

Regards,
 
Glen (in the colony's)

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Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 4:48 PM
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Subject: [MV] Is it armour or armor?

Ian

> I STAND CORRECTED. At least I spell "armor" as "armoUr".....

As do we in Oz.

The other day one of your fellow countrymen pointed out that the differences
in British to US spelling came about due to the US spelling actually being
the correct spelling of words in use in England at the time of the Pilgrim
Fathers.
In the period after the fleet left England the English Royalty had an
infatuation with things French and affected French spellings of English
words where ever possible.
In the main, this would appear to be the addition of the letter "u". I do
not have a French dictionary to hand, but seem to recall that the French
word for armour (tank) is "Char". What they called a knight's armour I don't
know?
So it does appear to be the case of "affecting a French spelling"
rather than use of the actuall French word.

It does not encourage me to learn that all this time I have been using
pseudo French. However, I am not all that convinced that you lot in the US
are speaking c1700 English either, as your English is now rather intermixed
with Spanish, Yiddish and countless African dialects.

I have not been able to prove or disprove his information:
perhaps others on this list would know?

I am also curious (a "u" again!) as to why the US wants to state dates in
the peculiar fashion it does. There is nothing logical about putting
month/day/year.

Regards
Doug

-----Original Message-----
From: Ferret-heaven@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Ferret-heaven@yahoogroups.com]
On Behalf Of dgrev
Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 2:47 AM
To: Ferret-heaven@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Ferret-heaven] Out of Town Until 10/22

> Ian

 >> I will be out of town until 10/22, and will respond to all emails >>
then!

> Since our common interest is a certain British MV, I will take it that >
you actually meant that date as 22/10? ;-)

> Got to be authentic, eh what old chap........

> Regards
> Doug

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