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Space Shuttle Endeavor - Panasonic 14mm f2.5

Started Aug 12, 2016 | Discussions thread
BDavis Regular Member • Posts: 479
Re: Space Shuttle Endeavor - Panasonic 14mm f2.5

Well the things one learns on the interwebs.

According to the all knowing Wikipedia, it is named after the British HMS Endeavour, after a national school competition for the naming.  Interesting article.

I live in the US.

I would have spelled it endeavour myself, but I am at odds on some words with the built in dictionary spell check. For example, right now, where I spelled endeavour, it has a red line under it , telling me it is misspelled, although I know it is not.

I learned to spell in the early sixties, so perhaps that has something to do with it.

I do spell color as color, not colour, and of course, now I can't think of any odd ones to demonstrate. I know the British spell some words such as "colour" with the extraneous "u".

"Flavour" comes to mind, I could spell it as flavor or flavour without batting an eye.

It is "flavor" here in ads, print,  etc.

Saviour,  Savior,  behaviour,  behavior, all the "our" conflicting with spell check.

I have looked up some words that I have had a conflict with spell check, and the "odd" spelling is usually noted as British spelling.

I remember growing up that more of these were correct spellings or noted as alternate spellings, not regional. It could be that my dictionaries were from the 40's, 50's and reflected an earlier period of our language.

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