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While we're on that subject:
I first learned about the British spelling of words when I got a Commodore 64 (my first computer) for Christmas '83, along with an expansion cartridge called Simons' BASIC. It was named after a British programmer named David Simons. He added new commands for sprite and background handling, and one of them was COLOUR, which changed the background colo(u)r of the screen. I thought at first that he had made a mistake. I pronounced the word in my head as "coloor", and I still do whenever I see the "our" used, even though I know it's wrong*.
*Very close to that same topic, my brain still reads "Simonson" with a short I, even though I've known that that's incorrect for decades now. Honsestly, "Sih-mun-sun" sounds more nordic to me, so it just seemed natural.
Edited by Vinny Valenti on 11 April 2026 at 1:31am
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