Happy New Years

[xyzzyplugh]

Or should that be 'Happy new Year? and should we all start spelling color without a 'u' etc to be Web compliant?

[Quizmonster]

Americans say: 'New Years' - or is it actually 'New Year's, an abbreviation of 'New Year's Eve/Day'? This appears in questions such as 'What are you doing for New Years/'s?' I can see no reason whatever for our following suit. Nor can I see any point in altering our spelling to match theirs. It wouldn't be 'Web' compliance so much as 'USA' compliance, given that they have the lion's-share involvement in it. No...colour will do us just fine! It came from the long 'o' sound in Latin which has been represented in Old French and English as 'ou' for centuries. The Americans might claim that their spelling is closer to the Latin...the problem is that they have totally lost the fact that it was pronounced as 'coloooor' (to exaggerate the effect). We have at least retained a shadow ot that in our spelling. Nah...let's stick with things as they are.

[gazzawazza]

Yeah, nicely put Quizmonster, that's Exactly what I was going to say if I could think that good...!