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Bernardo de La Paz

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2. Canada tends more toward US spelling than UK, especially for vehicles.

Reply to SouthBayDem (Original post)

Thu Aug 21, 2025, 07:09 AM

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So truck instead of lorry, car hood instead of bonnet, trunk instead of boot, tire instead of tyre.

We go with British (from French) colour instead of color, favour instead of favor, etc. Fibre, centre instead of fiber, center.

But we tend to go with -ize rather than -ise. It varies. But even the British have Oxford spelling as a variant with -ize: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_spelling

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_English#Spelling

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