@catsalad I tend to use colour, though not entirely consistently.
I largely learned to read & spell from older books written in UK English despite living in the US. So after spending far too many years trying & failing to fully switch to American English, I gave up and went with what's more natural for me - UK English (and generally older forms).
So, I'm weird.
@catsalad I was raised on "colour" but chose to use simpler and more consistent spellings, so use "color" now.
@catsalad shouldn't there be geographical answers? I feel like this is a test of what % of your readers are British/Canadian...
@acm_redfox True, but my goal is the ruffled feathers, not the poll results 
@catsalad
Both ways, entirely random which one at any given time. I first learned spelling as a child in Canada, so "colour" became automatic. I've lived my entire adult life in NY/US, so "color" also became automatic. Sometimes I use both spellings in the same document without noticing!
@catsalad What about centre, metre, theatre?
@SecondUniverse @catsalad I very much prefer British spellings because they're more baroque, more whimsical, more colourful. I'd rather go to the city centre to buy theatre tickets. But I don't wear any other colours than black, I will only stop wearing black when somebody invents a darker colour.
@catsalad Coulour
Oh wait… colour/couleur, depending on my mood and decided Franglish level
@LordCaramac @catsalad My partner is dyslexic, and that has really made me feel the inconsistencies in British (and to a lesser extent American) spellings cannot be justified.
@SecondUniverse @catsalad I don't think a language with such a history as English can even have any kind of consistent spelling. Besides, my native language is German, yet I make fewer spelling mistakes in English than many people from the UK.
I also still use the old German spelling from before the spelling reforn around the turn of the century, for purely aesthetical reasons. They streamlined all the spelling rules and got rid of all the odd exceptions, yet it was those irregularities that added some spice to the language. For example, according to the new spelling rules, ß only appears after long vowels or diphtongs, otherwise it's ss; with the old rules, ß appeared much more frequently, at the coda position.
@LordCaramac @catsalad I can't control the English language, but I can choose how I spell in my own writing.
"Correct" spelling is a side effect of the development of dictionaries. Once you have an alphabetically ordered dictionary, social agreement on spelling becomes required.
@SecondUniverse @catsalad Well, I like my spelling whimsical and full of peculiar irregularities. English is particularly odd since many spellings date back to Middle English, preserving letters long gone silent. British English borrows a few cute little things from French, like the -re and -our endings.
@LordCaramac @catsalad
don't forget tyre, kerb, gaol, etc.
@alexadeswift
Damn, I'm 15h too late, I came to say "couleur" as well! 😛
(Most of the time I type colour but it sometimes gets "corrected" to color 🤷)