Technicolor and technicolour are both English terms.
Technicolor is predominantly used in 🇺🇸 American (US) English (en-US
) while technicolour 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 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
technicolor | 99 | 77 | 94 | 97 | 89 | 64 | 0 | 79 | 63 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
technicolour | 1 | 23 | 6 | 3 | 11 | 36 | 0 | 21 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Below, we provide some examples of when to use technicolor or technicolour with sample sentences.
(Examples are Wikipedia snippets under the CC ShareAlike 3.0 license.)