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These words are generally thought to be part of a "British-English vs American-English" rivalry but there's actually more to it, naturally. Now, we shouldn't forget that America was colonized by Europeans of English ancestry so saying "It's American-English!" becomes a bit superfluous in way because most "Americans" are Europeans who traveled to America and made it their home country to live in (as for who arrived first in America that's a different topic).

Color vs Colour

The older word between these two is 'Color' while 'Colour' is newer.

Source: Quora | Answers

Center vs Centre

"Centre" is the winner in this case as it was how everyone wrote it that is until "Center" was created which originated around the 1918's. Most of the countries tend to favor "centre" over "center" but neither is really wrong, regardless.

Source: Stack Exchange

Canceled vs Cancelled

"Cancelled" was used since around the 1800's whereas "Cancelled" by 1980.

Source: Writing Explained

Bonus #1: Favor vs Favour

Both are correct. Both of these spellings came to light in the 1800's but "favor" became the preferred way of spelling the word in US while "favour" for more or less everywhere else. Worth noting, "favor" became popular in the 1840's so it took a while for them to make it official which spelling they'd use.

Bonus #2: Soccer vs Football

Soccer. It's how the British originally designed the word to be whilst "football" is the newer version of the word. Yes, I know tons of people hate reading and hearing the word "soccer" but that's how it was written as is.

Anyhow, this kind of wraps it up with the three most known words that people bicker around being the "correct" one. Honestly, it depends on which is older and that's how you'd be as correct as possible unless you prefer to use Modern US/UK English standards instead. The Canadians don't have an English of their own but rather, they pick words from the US and UK dictionaries and use them.

Fun-fact: In Canada, most people pronounce the letter Z as "zed" instead of "zee" while there are also those who say "zee". Confusing? It can be but it's how it it. 😛

Personal note; I've gotten so used to the "American-English" that it kind of feels wrong to spell words in "British-English" now (centre, favour, colour, cancelled) due to the fact they were somewhat shortened and look cleaner. There was a time I'd only write words in British-English but eh, not anymore.

PhilipMarc
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