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5. In Canada we spell some things like the English do

Thu Jun 26, 2014, 04:34 PM

Jun 2014

Lots of additional Us like in neighbour, favour, colour etc

Here's a cool website that shows some popular spellings between the UK, Canada and the US.

http://www3.telus.net/linguisticsissues/BritishCanadianAmerican.htm

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Sexism Much? applegrove Jun 2014 #1

I know right? laundry_queen Jun 2014 #4

And he has a young toddler at home. Makes you think he applegrove Jun 2014 #6

isn't the word "mould" mispelled? VanillaRhapsody Jun 2014 #2

In Canada we spell some things like the English do laundry_queen Jun 2014 #5

Its not really news though, is it? arikara Jun 2014 #3