So all you foreigners, please explain why you add a 'u' to words like favourite (favorite), colour (color), and others? The words don't have the short o sound when you say them. I understand that english is a complex language with complex sounds, dialects, and irregularities...but this I've never been able to understand.

I'd like to know this as well. Its much easier to just drop it...saves space

you spell glamour with a u dont you?

I believe it was America that dropped that u as opposed to everyone else picking it up. Assuming that is true, it is just like anything else in the english language; there are many, many cases where pronounciation has changed over time but the spelling has stayed the same, resulting in what seems like an odd way to spell a word.

On a seperate note, ive never been able to understand why Americans pronounce aluminium so incorrectly...

You doun't get to knouw. I'm gouing tou staurt usuing raundoum u's euveuryuwheureu.

Huouourauyu!

im sorry, are you trying to be funny? cos its really not working. LOLOL THEY SPELL DIFFERENT TO AMERICA, THEYRE OBVIOUSLY WRONG

We invented the damn language and if we English want to put "U" in our words and use "S" instead of "Z" then we damn well should be allowed to.

You see I find it odd that other English speaking countries don't use "U" in their words.

That's just how it's spelled in English, we don't add a U, you leave one out. Plus it differntiates the sound, the or is doctor is prounced differently than the our in colour.

And it's pronounced zed not zee, from the greek zeta. Just because it makes the alphabet song rhyme, doesn't mean that's how it's pronounced.

Also another thing, why can't Americans pronounce "Aluminium" correctly? I can't stand it when I hear most Americans say it. It's not pronounced "a-loo-min-um" it's pronounced "a-lu-min-ee-um", five syllables, not four lol.

^ It's beause they spell it aluminum.

Americans are weird