Originally Posted by raeanna74

If you look into the word etymologies of many of our 'English' words you'll find that nearly half of them come from German or French sources. Our language is an outgrowth of the multicutural roots of our country.

I do find it frustrating when in college I would spell things such as colour instead of color and my teacher, including my English teachers would mark off points for mispellings. I was so pissed at one teacher for marking several wrong that I copied the page in Webster's dictionary and took it to them to prove that it could be spelled that way. He said that since it was only a rough draft I could still do it HIS way and I would get it marked wrong if I didn't do it his way. Grrrr