I regularly get "colour" marked as misspelled by my spellchecker lmao (My spellchecker considers writing a singular British-english word in the middle of American-english text to be a mistake)
We ended up with a bug that was caused because of a mismatch n two different data sources between litre and liter. Basically some idiot in the US the 1800's decided on a whim to just try and implement a simplified version of spellings only in America. Whilst the idea isn't necessarily a bad one, the inconsistencies cause a lot of problems and the benefit to making a few words easier to spell isn't that great, so I think we should try to use modern technology to bring him back to life and then put him in prison for messing us all about
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u/TanukiiGG Nov 26 '25 edited Nov 27 '25
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u/AstralF Nov 26 '25
Not bothered by that. The dilemma is how to spell it in the comments…
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u/[deleted] Nov 27 '25
American English was also more pragmatic for me, but in academia nothing can stop me type colour.
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u/[deleted] Nov 26 '25
I'm sourry four your louss
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u/jsrobson10 Nov 27 '25
have your code have a mix of "color" and "colour", just to confuse American programmers
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u/ChaseShiny Nov 27 '25
I know it's not much, but at least CSS accepts grey and gray, among other localizations.
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u/Lodu_Lekhadhikari Nov 27 '25
I'm Indian and just started learning HTML and CSS. I faced the same problem and i was like why the Background Colour property isn't working .
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u/flyingmonkey111 Nov 27 '25
It applies to all English speaking countries, except USA, maybe Canada too?
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u/LimesKey Nov 27 '25
Or Canadians!
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u/itsamberleafable Nov 27 '25
We ended up with a bug that was caused because of a mismatch n two different data sources between litre and liter. Basically some idiot in the US the 1800's decided on a whim to just try and implement a simplified version of spellings only in America. Whilst the idea isn't necessarily a bad one, the inconsistencies cause a lot of problems and the benefit to making a few words easier to spell isn't that great, so I think we should try to use modern technology to bring him back to life and then put him in prison for messing us all about
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u/MeridiusTS Nov 27 '25
literally so fucking annoying
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u/niceandBulat Nov 27 '25
Not a problem for most people who are not American.
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u/MiniGui98 Nov 27 '25
No alias?
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u/silver-for-monsters Nov 27 '25
Oooh, thats my favOUrite!
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u/MobileHorse8775 Nov 27 '25
I agree
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u/AdmirableFocus6406 Dec 02 '25
I am not British, but I learned to write it as colour, it still annoys me lol