>>>>>>>I think maybe I had actually intended to say 'honour' rather than honesty, but it came out that way instead. And it was the comparison to Fox 'News', which I don't feel engages in honourable reporting, that made me want to say it at all.
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>>>>>>Do Canadians spell "honour" and such words like in Britain then, instead of the American "honor"? Quite a surprise. And colour?
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>>>>>Absolutely. Of course, there are a couple of exceptions - newspaper crossword puzzles for example (all but one seem to come from the U.S.),
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>>>>well they DID invent them
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>>>Yes, I've scored the papers and books for hors on end and still not fond puzzles from a Canadian sorce.
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>>Ha ha! yo're a bit of a wag, eh, Popow!
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>>>>>and computer programming where I have use 'color' (ie - 'BackColor').
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>>>>Well there's no choice but to use the US spelling or get an error
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>>>Should that be "... or get an errour"?
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>>:-)
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>>BTW in the UK a program is what runs a 'puter (deliberately using the US spelling), but a programme is what's shown on the telly, or what you read at a gig, or a corse of action. Is this so in Canada too
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>That would be a definitive yes and no. Properly, yes, but laziness will out. Many of our media outlets use 'program'. It's the same sort of nonsense we get in advertising - 'nite' and 'lite' etc. Although, I must admit to never having seen 'nite lite'.

Oh, we have our share of "Eezy Kleen" cloths and all that. And with the Youth doing most of their writing as texts it'll only get worse (strangely I kudn't find any way of "textizing" these sentences, so maybe there is a chance for spelling to survive yet!) :-)