Hi, On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 09:11, Oisin C. Feeley wrote: > According to one argument that I've heard, the original language of most > of the -or ending words was Latin. Color, stupor etc. The "u" was added > in by the French and this was then adopted by the British. US English was > established prior to this (a sort of linguistic "founder effect") and thus > retained the original Latinate spellings. People are just lazy.. the amount of time it takes to type the extra letters. Which bodes badly, what with the mobile phone/hacker craze of type words with only two or three letters... Cya L8r James -- James McArthur <james@nospam.pcorp.com.au> Did you know that for the price of a 280-Z you can buy two Z-80's? -- P.J. Plauger
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