Humor and humour are both English terms.
Humor is predominantly used in 🇺🇸 American (US) English (en-US
) while humour is predominantly used in 🇬🇧 British English (used in UK/AU/NZ) (en-GB
).
In terms of actual appearance and usage, here's a breakdown by country, with usage level out of 100 (if available) 👇:
Term | US | UK | India | Philippines | Canada | Australia | Liberia | Ireland | New Zealand | Jamaica | Trinidad & Tobago | Guyana |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
humor | 96 | 42 | 37 | 91 | 41 | 39 | 0 | 41 | 46 | 71 | 68 | 74 |
humour | 4 | 58 | 63 | 9 | 59 | 61 | 0 | 59 | 54 | 29 | 32 | 26 |
Below, we provide some examples of when to use humor or humour with sample sentences.
(Examples are Wikipedia snippets under the CC ShareAlike 3.0 license.)