In year 7 my teacher spelt colour color and we decided it would be fun to tell her off about it because she was a teacher and she should know better.
- the liar;:
- Hm. Oh. Spelling. I used to go to a British-system school, so I spelt everything as "colour", "cosy", "organise", "jewellery", "defence", etc., until the beginning of this year where I lost heaps of points on a quiz just because I spelt things the way I did. My teacher's like, "This is an American school! Spell things the American way!" Uh... yeah, sure. Only I never did, haha... which probably explained my quiz fails.
she then went on lecturing us about that that was the way she has always spelt it and technically it is not wrong. So there is you're proof. nobody can tell you that it is wrong, tell them you are spelling things the way you always have; the way you have been taught, either the learn to read both English (US) and English (UK/Aus) or they come to terms with proper English.
June 10th, 2010 at 08:17am