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 English Spellings

In the English style of spelling, many words which, in American usage, end in or, end in our. Words thus ending in our are:—


 * arbour
 * ardour
 * armour
 * behaviour
 * candour
 * clamour
 * clangour 
 * colour
 * demeanour
 * discolour
 * dolour
 * endeavour
 * favour
 * fervour
 * flavour
 * harbour
 * honour
 * humour
 * invigour
 * labour
 * misbehaviour
 * misdemeanour
 * neighbour
 * odour
 * parlour
 * rancour
 * rigour
 * rumour
 * savour
 * splendour
 * succour
 * tabour
 * tumour
 * valour
 * vapour
 * vigour

Under instructions to “use English spelling,” the above forms are to be used; also the following:—


 * cheque (on a bank)
 * chequered
 * connexion
 * dreamt
 * faggot
 * forgather
 * forgo
 * grey
 * inflexion
 * jewelery
 * leapt
 * premiss (in logic)
 * waggon

Proper Names.

Correct spellings are here given. Where two or more forms of the same name are given, it is to be understood that each is equally correct, and the copy form is to be followed.


 * à Becket (Thomas)
 * à Becket (A.W. and G.A.)
 * Acadia (Nova Scotia)
 * Adeler (Mary)
 * Adler (Rabbi)
 * Air (Point of), N. Wales
 * Allan-a-Dale
 * Allan Poe (Edgar)
 * Allegany County (Md.)
 * Alleghany Mountains
 * Allegheny City and River
 * All Souls College (Oxford)
 * Alma Tadema (Lawrence)
 * Alma Tadema (Miss Laurence)
 * Andersen (Hans C.)
 * Apennines
 * Appalachians
 * Arcadia (poetic)
 * Austen (Jane, English novelist)
 * Austin (Jane G., American novelist)
 * Ayre (Point of), Isle of Man
 * Bastille
 * Baylis (T.H., writer)
 * Bayliss (Sir Wyke, painter)
 * Berthallet (C.L., chemist)
 * Berthelot (P.E.M., chemist)
 * Beverley (Eng.)
 * Beverly (Mass.)
 * Biglow Papers
 * Bischoff (K.Ct.)
 * Bischoff (T.L.W.)
 * Björnson (Björnstjerne)
 * Bonheur (Rosa)
 * Britannia
 * Brittany
 * Brobdingnag
 * Brookline (Mass.)
 * Brooklyn (N.Y.)
 * Brooks (Phillips)
 * Burdette (Robert J.)
 * Carey (Matthew)
 * Carribbean Sea
 * Caribbees
 * Cariboo (B.C.)
 * Caribou (Idaho)
 * Carlisle (J.G.)
 * Carlyle (Thomas)
 * Carnegie Institution
 * Cary (Phœbe)
 * Charleston (S.C.)
 * Charlestown (Mass.)
 * Chile or Chili
 * Colombia (So. America)
 * Coverly (Sir Roger de)
 * Danzig or Dantzic
 * Davy (Sir Humphry)