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