Mould or Mold ?

[Autocon]

One is a mold for creating plastic crack, the other is a harmful mould seen on the walls of houses.

Did i get it right?

[dirge]

Mould is “commonwealth” (Including Australian) English.

Mold is American English.

[Autocon]

Ah so the one word means both terms!

[Ode to a Grasshopper]

I think 'mould' in Commonwealth English is the verb, not the noun. Except the gross wall-stuff noun that is. For the 'makes-Transformer-bits-when-you-pour-plastic-into-it' I'm pretty sure it's 'mold'.

I could be wrong though.

[dirge]

I think 'mould' in Commonwealth English is the verb, not the noun. Except the gross wall-stuff noun that is. For the 'makes-Transformer-bits-when-you-pour-plastic-into-it' I'm pretty sure it's 'mold'.

I could be wrong though.

Noun/verb is the same in the USA and "commonwealth". It's mould for all contexts here, mold for all contexts in the USA. Akin to colour & color.

[Thurmus]

If you speak English it is Mould. If you speak American it is Mold. Same as Colour. Surprised the Yanks haven't decided to mess with Parkour yet.

[GoktimusPrime]

Confirming what others have said "mould" is English and "mold" is 'Murican.

It's because words like mould and colour came to English via French* so normal English speakers use French based spelling. But French is a Romance language which evolved from Latin, so the Americans use the Latin based spelling. Although strangely enough, we normal English speakers still use the Latin based ~ise and ~isation suffixes which the Yanks have rejected for the Greek based ~ize and ~ization suffixes (which the Romans took from the Greeks).

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*During the Norman Conquest when French was practically the official language of England for nearly 3 centuries -- longer than Australians have been speaking English! Consequently over 50% of words in Modern English are of French origin (and many of those French words are of Latin origin). All because some bastard decided to traipse over and claim the English throne.

[BigTransformerTrev]

OK, is it 'grey' or 'gray'? I always get tripped up with that one. I tend to go 'grey' for preference

[Galvatran]

OK, is it 'grey' or 'gray'? I always get tripped up with that one. I tend to go 'grey' for preference

There's a broad spectrum. Like 50 shades.

[BigTransformerTrev]

There's a broad spectrum. Like 50 shades.

Hahahaha!!! Ok, I gotta pay that one