[jmacusa]

What’s with the Brits and putting ‘’u’’in words like ‘’color’’ and ‘’labor’’? And why do they pronounce the word ‘’clerk’’ like ‘’clark’’?

[Squawk 8888]

I read somewhere that after the Norman conquest, when many among the nobility were French-descended, they started adding the “u” and changing other spellings to make the words look French. Other examples include cheque and centre.

[lowbridge]

And they drive on the wrong side of the road too.