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[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Ah, nice to remember. :) I'm used to speaking and writing UK English - I learnt it that way and it became a habit. (In the UK, they write colour intead of color, labour instead of labor, tyre instead of tire, grey instead of gray, etc.)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Yep, British English got these words from Norman French. In the 20th Century, Webster's reforms attempted to simplify American English and lost a bunch of these silent vowels.