tmdry said:
John La Rue said:
***BUZZ!***
You are wrong.
Spelling difference between American and British English.
Color - American
Colour - British(Also used in Australia where he is from)
For instance -
Favorite & Favourite or Honor & Honour
Heck, I even live in the US!
Um I'm going to go out on a limb here - I think it was the English who invented the English language.
The missing u:
The near-close near-back vowel is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet for the near-close near-back rounded vowel is ?. This derives from a small turned capital ?; although officially called a small Latin letter upsilon, it bears little resemblance to the Greek upsilon and is informally called "horseshoe u" instead. The equivalent X-SAMPA symbol is U. Prior to 1989, there was an alternate IPA symbol for this sound, ?, called "closed omega". This symbol is no longer supported by the IPA.
Some languages may have a near-close near-back unrounded vowel; since no language is known to contrast rounding of this vowel, the IPA has not devised a standard way to represent this and thus can be represented in a number of ways, including <??> and <??>.