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Originally Posted by Kath
The American spelling of 'favourite' or 'favour'. I don't know why, I can usually handle the changes, but for some reason that one has just started to really bug me.
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Okay, I ask you Brits: do you pronounce it fay-voor and fay-voor-it?
Or is it fay-vore and fay-vore-it?
Or worse yet, is it something like fay-ver and fay-ver-it?
Or can we hope that Brits actually pronounce it like their French cousins over the channel, something like feh-vwaar and feh-vwaar-eet?
Or is it somewhere
between the Brit and American spelling, like 'soot' instead of 'boot'?
Oh, and I assign the
annoyance people get over differences in the language when they are in fact fascinating developments that reveal much about the nature of speech and language.