favorite vs. favourite

'Favourite' and 'favorite' both mean the same. While the former (favourite) is used in British English, the latter (favorite) is American English.

There are a number of these:

color / colour, rancor / rancour, humor / humour.  

The main purpose of their existence seems to be to confuse learners and incite friendly argument among native speakers.

Exactly! It justifies my incinuating that Americans can't concentrate on as many letters as English people.


Bring it on!!

I will definitely try to argue with my teacher who is British next time. On a serious note, does anyone know why tey are differently spelled?

A simplified summary from Wikipedia:

Many of the now characteristic American English spellings were introduced, although often not created, by Noah Webster in his An American Dictionary of the English Language of 1828.

Webster was a strong proponent of spelling reform for reasons both philological and nationalistic. Many spelling changes proposed in the U.S. by Webster hi

0I think that "favourite" is the Canadian way of spelling and and "favorite" is the American way. 050010id4

*71*0 01p

00Well, in my class of English literature, a couple of year ago, I saw a documentary made by CBC and ABC showing how spelling of a lot of words changed within the community of the settlers of the Thirteen Colonies in 18th century (1700 to 1800 for those "01i00uneducated02i00" americans 05000 lol i'm gonna be shot for this... lol).02p

01

"favorite" is the American spelling; "favourite" is British

You must be an american.

Wow a forum on the internet that hasn't descended into a cacophony of internet acronyms, outdated meme's or disgusting language...

Is this what heaven is like?

Good on you sirs, good on you...

I found this on Wikipedia as to the why of the differences:

In the early 18th century,