New York Times. Otago took the honours on the opening day of their fifth-round Plunket Shield match against Auckland at University Oval yesterday. Rate this article: 4. Have a discussion about this article with the community: 1 Comment.
Notify me of new comments via email. Bruce Challoner. Within the Australian military which follows the English tradition, in many town halls and RSL's around the country they have Honor boards not Honour Boards for those who served their country in time of war. Early and the Boer War saw Honor boards not Honour boards as the highest respect or esteem as Honor not Honour , thus World War 1 and 2 Honor Boards used this spelling as meaning the highest meaning of the word honor and therefore is always spelt honor never honour.
Therefore, especially in the military, honor has a higher calling than honour and should never be mistaken as having the same meaning. Like Reply Report 3 3 years ago.
Brian Fesko. Excellent bit of military history and tradition. Thank you. Like Reply Report 2 years ago. Cancel Report. Create a new account.
Honor is the preferred spelling of this word in American English. In British English, honour is standard. Therefore, you should use honor with American audiences and honour with British audiences. You can remember to use honour for British audiences since honour is spelled with a U, which is also the first letter of United Kingdom.
This shared U should make it easy to remember than British audiences prefer honour. Is it honor or honour?
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Take the quiz. Our Favorite New Words How many do you know? How Strong Is Your Vocabulary? But words like color , favor , and honor —spelled as such in American English—are colour , favour , and honour in British English. The person who receives the most credit for this dropping of u is Noah Webster, the American lexicographer, whose dictionaries were very influential on American English.
But when he did, he made history. There are certain cases when British writers drop that u. Words like honorary and honorous are spelled the same way in American English and British English. I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on.
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