Who has the correct spelling,the English or the Americans?

...............logically, the correct spelling is the English one as it is the mother language of the American.

It's true, the American has cut the u in' flavour', probably because Americans don't like English cooking! There must be a hidden reason to all, but I believe the main reason is practicality.... American spelling is easier!

........... what spelling do the Aussies follow?? *wink wink* :)

When I was preparing students for the both the Cambridge and Michigan University Lower and Proficiency Exams, consistancy in the compositions and oral interviews mattered above all. Now the lower levelled national exams were all based on British English, so here you have a student who has been learning to spell a certain way over at least a 5 year period, and all the sudden they are expected to remember all the differences for the most important exams of all. Cambridge University was more strict in marking the differences than Michigan was, but the Cambridge Exams are more theory-based, and the Michigan highlight an ease with use in the second language. The newer London University Exams are hit and miss, spelling doesn't even count if it does not take away from the understanding of what has been written. To answer your question, it goes both ways...but you are right to be annoyed at being corrected by people who do not realize there are a fair amount of differences between the two languages (British and American English) and that both are correct. When I see questions or answers I can barely understand because of spelling errors, it makes my skin crawl, but I try to remember this may be a person who is still in the process of learning English...the only forgivable excuse. And some people were just never able to further their education and/or never needed to write much in the jobs they have had over the years, I don't mind their making mistakes, either...it is understandable. So are type-o's. Some peple are just serious dickwads, yaknows? Reall hi and mitey and think there hot shite an all dat, and everyone else shud be and look and smell and talk and write just like'em...

The original English.

The english

if the language is english then the english spellings are going to be right, the americans have just altered them

Use the correct spelling in the country where you live and learn. I choose English because I live and went to school in Australia.

What Finisha said... I will admit, it seems weird when I see words that are spelled differently, but thats only cuz I am used of the way we as Americans spell them, even though the English way is the correct way... ;)

Queens English but Yahoo spellcheck has turned me into an American.I've even started eating at McDonalds and spilling relish on my shirt

Guess it kind of depends on when things were standardised one things for sure Bill Shakespeare would have got real bad marks from some of the folks on here!

The Bulgarians!

if you hear how we speak English you'll know what I mean lol

personally, I prefer the English way of writing words ;-)

Primarily English,as America was colonised by many different nations,subsequently,the unifying written language has many different interpretations of spelling.....