"Favour' is what I use when I use favor or color as a verb to distinguish it from a noun. P.S., agreed right down the line. The media have a low opinion of the American voter.
"Favour' is what I use when I use favor or color as a verb to distinguish it from a noun. P.S., agreed right down the line. The media have a low opinion of the American voter.
Interesting! I've had "view with favour" embedded in my brain since high school, which is when I first became acquainted with the Balfour Declaration (1917). As an AmE editor, I'm also well enough acquainted with BrE to see "favour" as simply the BrE spelling of AmE "favor." So I'm not sure how many readers are getting your distinction.
Let's just say it is petty, private language game -- or quirk -- by and for me. ЁЯдн I lived as a kid for two years in a place that taught in Br.E., so when I came back to the U.S., I wanted to retain something of those two years.
"Favour' is what I use when I use favor or color as a verb to distinguish it from a noun. P.S., agreed right down the line. The media have a low opinion of the American voter.
Interesting! I've had "view with favour" embedded in my brain since high school, which is when I first became acquainted with the Balfour Declaration (1917). As an AmE editor, I'm also well enough acquainted with BrE to see "favour" as simply the BrE spelling of AmE "favor." So I'm not sure how many readers are getting your distinction.
Let's just say it is petty, private language game -- or quirk -- by and for me. ЁЯдн I lived as a kid for two years in a place that taught in Br.E., so when I came back to the U.S., I wanted to retain something of those two years.