Hoodcom said:
< Wonders what ^ favors. Color or colour?
Well, < just said 'favour', so it's probably a give-in < would say 'colour'.
Canadian English is an odd mix. We spell all -our/-or words using -our like the British, but like the Americans, we write -ize/-yze/-ise/-yse words using -ize/-yze (even though I know some British write it that way as well). However, when it comes to -er/-re words, we mostly use the British -re, such as in 'centre', but with some words such as 'metre/meter' we use the American spelling, 'meter'. When it comes to -ce/-se words, whereas the former is strictly British and the latter is strictly American, they're both interchangeable. The same goes for the doubling or not doubling the consonant (American='canceled', British='cancelled'), they're interchangeable. Then there's words like the British 'spelt' and 'dreamt' versus the American 'spelled' and 'dreamed' (though, while no Americans use the British spelling, many Brits do use the American spelling), we use the American spelling. Canadian English also, like American English, never uses single-quotation marks.
< writes everything the British way except for 'dreamed/spelled'-like words. Generally, no one here cares which spellings you use, not even University professors. While, like said, there is an official Canadian dictionary which you are taught through in school, more than half the people here are immigrants... and then there's the French side of Canada, so like whatever.
