Humor or humour?

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Hi there,
I'm just writing a letter in Microsoft Office Word software and it corrects me when I write "humour" (suggesting "humor"). I looked up this word in my academic dictionary (which is very good one) and there is just "humour" with "u". I'm confused. Is it possible, that if I say just humour (standing alone) is it with "u" and if I say it with any adjective (dark humor) is it without "u"? Otherwise I don't get it :-(
I had very similar problem with word neighbour/neighbor about a month ago and I assumed it's a difference between British and US English; but if so, I don't know why this Office thing corrects me...

Any explanation please?

Thank you very much!

Junta-104 · Accepted Answer

Hi ,,

you all right .. like color and colour ,color is an american word and colour is a british Word (( Aboth are correct ))

you should change the language of Office Word To American EN ...

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Yoong Liat · Answer

Hi Lenka
Microsoft Word software points out the spelling of 'humour' as wrong because it is based on AmE; 'humour' is the BrE version while 'humor' is correct in AmE.

KateJS · Answer

Word can be set to check for British (and Australian, Irish, Indian etc) or US spelling - under the Tools menu.  Pick one and stick to it.

Lenka. · Answer

Thank you all!

Hajer · Answer

I think because Microsoft Office Word software and the other progarams are US, that is why they use US english instead of British.

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