Spelling 101

colour is the one that always gets me it is spelt differently in so many places that they have added a few variations in the english dictionary now, i am an awful speller myself

LoL this reminds me of a discussion i wrote a while back...The word is spelled...
I had wrote it/write it..i dont know why but i did,but i think it should have been something different,who knows...I say out loud the word learnt..I learnt a new thing at collge,but i write learned..or do i? heck knows,you have me thinking.
As for the difference in spelling well yes there are a few but nothing that i cannot read.words like..favourite..you say..favorite...thats better so no point in the..U!!
or honor/honour..again no point in the..U...Ageing/aging...E?

LoL oreo i really do not know

You said it exactly Oreo! I have wondered the same thing for the longest time and how the english language is different in other countries. I have learned to not stop at a word because of it's spelling knowing that that is how it's spelled in their country. Color and colour is another word that I've gotten used to. Now I typed in learnt on ms word and it didn't say it was spelled wrong so apparently it is a word we never used or heard of. Interesting!!

"Learnt" is the past tense form of the verb "learn". As it is in the Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary one is allowed to use either of these two. If you wish you can use learned or 'learnt". However, while the word 'learnt' is used only as a verb 'learned' can be used as an adjective also. For example - 'A learned person...'

I hope I could be of some use.

words can be catchy for sure. i'm like u i never thought learn't was a correct word. who knows. i have a friend that has always used it. my youngest son use to say worser all the time. i'd get onto him about it & one day he said worst,worser whatever. it tickled me but of course i didn't let on. people's use of words doesn't sound right to me sometimes butt i'm probably the that's saying them wrong. guess we manage to make out whatever they are saying however the spell it or pronounce it.

I thought about starting a post like yours but at the time my mind went somewhat blank and couldn't remember them so well as you did. I also had a question with surprize/surprise. I have always spelled it surprise, but I have had many responses using surprize. At my age because I'm not having to teach children correctly I just go with the flow and there is no doubt I make spelling errors as well and as long as everyone understands me and I understand everyone that's all that matters really. This is a good post non the less I love it Thank You for doing an excellent job of it.

Well, I'm Canadian and I know there are a couple of spelling variations between US and Canada. Like you said, "Favourite" is the Canadian spelling. But the US spells it Favorite, dropping the original 'U'. But we are a compromising sort, so both are acceptable to us here.

I don't think that learnt or spelt (meaning spelled) is correct, although SPELT does mean something different, a type of wheat.

I am a bit of a spelling freak. I read the dictionary as a child, because I was in spelling bees all the time and won.

Alot of these short forms like using "U" for 'you' came about when texting started. You only have so many characters per message, so it was wise to start using short forms, like "4" in place of 'for', etc.

I don't really like it, but it seems acceptable in certain situations.

I can't think of any other variations at the moment, sorry.

We live in Spain and moved here when my daughter was three. She is now 8. Everyone expects her to do well in english but she talks, reads, speaks and spells spanish. She has major difficulties with the letter w at the beginning of a word and she writes k as a g because that is how it is pronounced here. She got a 9.75 out of 10 today in her english exam but that is because we practised for a whole week on the test. We were very proud of her although her english teacher was not! We had to explain (as the english teacher is new) that my dd was never taught english in England, only in Spain, so if her spelling is bad it is the fault of her education! She conceded and now understands that just because my dd speaks english she cannot spell or read as well as the english. My dd was brought up spanish and now we are constantly teaching how to say new words in english! She kind of makes up words i.e. scientifica - we had to tell her she meant scientist.

I think that if you make the effort in learning another language it will pay off. It takes forever to be perfect but we can all aspire to be good. Bloopers and mistakes will happen on the way but it can be funny and shouldn't be taken too seriously.

I have never seen this form of the word until I was on here. I believe that it is a form of the word and is correct,but I don't think that we use it in the English language much. I think that the U in words make me trip sometimes too. I didn't realize that it was just the certain countries that used it. I just always assumed that the word was being misspelled. Thanks for starting this discussion to clear up some of our misunderstandings.

Lol... now we English get the same with American spellings of English words. Learnt and Spelt are the English equivalent to Learned and Spelled in the American version of English. It's the same with words we have with double letters, like too, meaning also. I believe you spell it to. Then there's surprise and surprize, the z replacing our s, etc, etc. There are a lot of them, my friend. They look strange to us as well but like everything else, we grow used to them. You see what I meant in the other discussion when I say about spelling in English? It must be so confusing for those learning because it differs from country to country.

In our country, braces hold your trousers (pants) up, zits are spots and a fanny is NOT a butt... a bum or backside is a butt! I'd better stop now, I'm getting a bit crude here.

Brightest Blessings my friend.