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Posted July 30, 2018
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Hickory: It turned that way because one person is so desperate to be right.
I thought it's because the OP left.
Post edited July 30, 2018 by Breja
Posted July 30, 2018
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muntdefems: I feel insulted by the way this thread has turned into a British-vs-American spelling battle royal/royale.
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Hickory: It turned that way because one person is so desperate to be right. He isn't.
A few sites lists 'forums' as preferred, but none say that it's the only correct version:

http://grammarist.com/usage/fora-forums/

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/fora

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/forum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forum

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/forum

I suspect that this is one of those cases in which widespread ignorance has lead to something formerly seen as incorrect ('forums') becoming the established norm. And it seems the Americans were the first to embrace 'forums', by almost half a century (1930s vs 1975). In scientific and scholarly contexts, fora is still somewhat preferred (grammarist.com).
Posted July 30, 2018
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Hickory: It turned that way because one person is so desperate to be right. He isn't.
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MightyPinecone: A few sites lists 'forums' as preferred, but none say that it's the only correct version:
All American references.
Posted July 30, 2018
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Hickory: Only in your delusion.

Only to uniformed Americans.
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hedwards: LOL, no Brit should ever lecture an American on spelling until you put your house in order. It's center, not centre and there is no "u" in color. We've been fixing your broken spelling system for what seems like centuries now.

As for Latin spelling, I guess you guys have your stimuluses to deal with and we retain the correct stimuli.
People. Fix that one.

Incidentally, colour and coloration have different O sounds, as do vigour and vigorous. Same deal with honour and honorary. In each, the form with "ou" has a softer O.

(Incidentally, we straight up just pronounce many words differently to you guys.)
Post edited July 30, 2018 by PoppyAppletree
Posted July 30, 2018
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MightyPinecone: A few sites lists 'forums' as preferred, but none say that it's the only correct version:
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Hickory: All American references.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/forum#dataset-cacd

From what I've been able to find, the only dictionary that defines fora the way you do seems to be the Oxford dictionary:

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/fora
Posted July 30, 2018
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MightyPinecone: From what I've been able to find, the only dictionary that defines fora the way you do seems to be the Oxford dictionary:
The definitive dictionary with over 600,000 words. All others pale. I'm talking about 'English', not 'American'.
Post edited July 30, 2018 by Hickory
Posted July 30, 2018
Colour.
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