It is common to find that people get confused because they found in one article the word "color" spelled in one way and then in another article spelled like "colour", if you are one of these people and still wondering why does it happen, then this article is for you.
有些同学很疑惑,为什么有些文章中颜色是color,而有些却是colour呢?究竟这个单词到底怎么拼呢?为什么会有两种拼法呢?如果你有同样的疑惑,你需要这篇文章!
the truth is that they are the American spelling Vs the British spelling.
真相其实是:
他们只是美式拼法和英式拼法的区别!
You should know that, appart from the accents, the pronounciation and the meaning are the same for both of them.
除了口音的影响,这两个单词的发音和含义都是一样的。
Let's check what the Oxford Dictionary has to tell us about this:
下面一起来看一下牛津词典是怎么说的:
There are several areas in which British and American spelling are different. The differences often come about because British English has tended to keep the spelling of words it has absorbed from other languages (e.g. French), while American English has adapted the spelling to reflect the way that t