When I wrote my one (half Sudanese) (half British) friend (the brother of the brother-sister pair) about how well his niece was reading, and how she could sightread practically a whole book that I gave her, apart from the three words of "color" and "shape" and "birds," he emailed back and was like --
do you think it might have been the american spelling of the word 'colour' that threw [her first name]?
-- in what appears to be another fine example of (cerebral) (British) humor.
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