Arbor or arbour?

[jonathan heppelParticipant @jonathanheppel43280]

Has anyone noticed a creeping misspelling of arbor as arbour? I think there's a misconception that it's the "british" spelling as in colour.
The hobby suppliers are the worst offenders, and then people follow suit.

Whatever, I always wince when I see a post about someone fitting a garden feature to his milling machine.

[jonathan heppelParticipant @jonathanheppel43280]

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

Wondered why a rose was climbing over my milling machine.

There are a few things like that. Rather worse is the advertising of boring heads as 'boring and facing heads' when they aren't. 'Live centres' has also been mentioned before.But many in the business are just traders not engineers or hobbyists and even when some of the company are aware they can't check on everything a website programmer or secretary does. If it passes the spellchecker…….

Keith Wilson in his articles always made a point of using 'shew' instead of 'show' as it is also correct.

Same goes for spilling. Even half the Inglish can't do grammer like wot I can so got to cut they forinners some slak.

[Sub MandrelParticipant @submandrel]

It's completely arbortary.

KW only used Shew when writing of the GWR,

Neil

[StovepipeParticipant @stovepipe]

I hope you intended to say "writing off the GWR", with which as a Southern Railway enthusiast I would be completely in accord .

Dennis

[Another JohnSParticipant @anotherjohns]

Interesting about arbor vs. arbour – I guess that us colonials think that anywhere we can stick a "U" in differentiates us from the USA.

At least we don't put a "Y" in Tire….

Another JohnS – learning something new every day.

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