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‘COLOUR’ AND ‘COLOR’ ARE BOTH CORRECT SPELLING OF THE SAME WORD .NOW RIGHT AT LAST FIVE WORD WHERE IN LETTER “U” IS DROPPED​

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Answered by Anonymous
108

Five such words are -

  1. Flavour - flavor
  2. Labour - labor
  3. Neighbour - neighbor
  4. Honour - honor
  5. Behaviour - behavior

  • The mentioned words spelled differently according to British and American English. The words listen in first column belong to British English and the words listed in second column belong to American English.

  • There are few other examples of words spelled differently in both the English. They are -
  • Analogue - Analog
  • Paedophile - Pedophile.
Answered by nidaeamann
21

Explanation:

Some of the examples that can be quoted where the letter U is missing are;

honorary, honorific, humorist, vigorous, humorous, laborious

The are two writing styles, the British and the American styles. In British style, uo is used while in American writing style u is skipped and only o is used

Other than this there are some words that have totally different spelling yet similar meaning such as chips and French fries

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