Martin wrote:

Actually, I think color is almost acceptable in the UK;

Not to me

Nor to me.

I think if you are living in a coding environment
you have to write "color", and then after a time it seems normal
to write it that way even if not coding.

I lived in a coding environment. I don't recall ever writing "color".

Really?
Do you never use HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Java, ... ?

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Timothy Murphy
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School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin