Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 16:40:27 -0800

From: Chris Coolidge ccoolidg[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MOOSE.UVM.EDU

Subject: Re: Commonly misspelled words



colour

centre

organize

rumour

armour

realize



There seems to be an interesting tendency for Americans to make these

misspellings. Maybe Americans are just generally bad spellers. It may

be genetic. Had anybody got any other possible suggestions for why

this might be?



Charlotte Thomas

Snail mail:

CECTAL

Department of English Language and Linguistics

University of Sheffield

Sheffield

UK



email:

EGP95CMT[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]Sheffield.ac.uk



The above words are all spelled differently on U.S. soil from the

British pronunciation. Growing up in Canada I was in contact with both,

and it confused the hell out of me.

The correct American spelling:

color

center

organise

rumor

armor

realise