Thus spake R F: Spelt, shmelt. You're wrong. "Color" and "labor" are true to their Latin source and are the forms used in all major Romance languages except French. BrE "colour" and "labour" are plain

Thus spake R F: Have you never considered the fact that "colour" is more aesthetically pleasing when spelt that way? "color" and "labor" are plain ugly. You're more right than you realize, Matt. You're like

Have you never considered the fact that "colour" is more aesthetically pleasing when spelt that way? "color" and "labor" are plain ugly. You're more right than you realize, Matt. You're like Enoch Powell in

Fight to save English spelling A campaign is being launched ... from being shown words such as "utilize", "color" and "traveling". Mr Russell will have to provide some additional explanation if he is to receive my

Aaron J. Dinkin filted: (regarding centralized (u") for /u/:) I just asked my seven-year-old daughter to pronounce the words ... she did NOT use this sound were pool and stool. It's a well-documented fact that, even in dialects of English

Thus spake Ross Howard: If it were feasible, would you reform any aspect of the English language other than spelling? If so, what specific changes would you make? 1. Dumping the requirement that "despite" must be followed by a noun and

On 18 Oct 2003, Donna Richoux wrote -snip re: google doesn't flag up "supercede"- Yeah, I remember learning that here before. Merriam-Webster has it as a variant, and as I recall, a number of other dictionaries do, too. Ah: I missed

If it were feasible, would you reform any aspect of the English language other than spelling? If so, what specific changes would you make? 1. Dumping the requirement that "despite" must be followed by a nounand never directly by a clause

the oblique allusion in lieu of the frontal attack filted: If it were feasible, would you reform any aspect of the English language other than spelling? If so, what specific changes would you make? I'd like to be able to do this type of thing

If it were feasible, would you reform any aspect of the English language other than spelling? If so, what specific changes would you make? I'd like to be able to do this type of thing more: "The walking while he was talking boy told