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[william at palfreman.com (William Palfreman)]

On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Jeff Walters wrote:

> Yeah, but you guys (assuming you're from Britain) spell it colour and not
> color.  What gives? :)

Because that's how it's pronounced.  English often has more distinctive
vowel sounds than American English. We say it like col'er, you people
say coll-or.  Remember that for us, "Marry merry Mary" are three words
that actually sound different :-)

Bill.