It's all for "U"

I think I have established by now that I am Canadian. If not, well I am. Get over it.

Anyways, for you foreign peeps, you may not have noticed that we often use excess letters in words that really don't need to be there but make the word look better.
This happens for one of two reasons:
a) We were once owned and severely whipped by Great Britain, and we adopted GB's way of spelling things.
b) we are half french. Sometimes we are just mixing up the two languages. I for one throw "E"s onto the end of words that don't need them. That is one of the few parts of French immersion I have retained.

So what really annoys me is when something or someone Canadian fails to spell things the Canadian way. Like my CANADIAN HISTORY prof once spelled favourite and omitted the U....I am assuming that there is a U in favourite. If there isn't, then there should be, damnit. This is Canada after all. We spell colour with a u. Unless you are on my university learning system, which was apparently done and revised by Americans.

This gets to me. I mean, Canadians have precious few things in their everyday lives that might engender a sense of nationalism. Wierd spelling is one of them....Hockey is the other. Face it world, we are the best at it. How many times to we have to beat Russia to prove it?

So seriously, write "symbole" with an e. Spell licence with a c. Be in constant confusion as to whether the r is before or after the e, and when in doubt, just put it before (like in centre or litre). Commit criminal offences not offenses. Then get caught by the police not the polise.


I'm just kidding about that last one by the way.