Talk:Adaptive Coloration in Animals

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Was the first edition published in the UK really spelled 'coloration' and not 'colouration'? And if so, why? Why would a British author publishing in the UK use American spelling, especially back in 1940 when US spelling was not used at all in the UK, (unlike today)? 86.134.91.122 (talk) 07:41, 23 November 2012 (UTC)


 * In Poulton's time in 1890, we Brits wrote "colouration", but by 1940 that looked strange to us and we generally wrote "coloration", which we still do today. In the book itself, both Huxley (in the Preface) and Cott (in the text) write "colour" but "coloration". Sorry but that's how it is... Chiswick Chap (talk) 07:55, 23 November 2012 (UTC)


 * If it's any consolation, the American authors Abbott Handerson Thayer and Gerald H. Thayer published Concealing Colouration in the Animal Kingdom (New York, 1909), so perhaps the Brit/Am spelling split isn't quite as clear as you imagined. Chiswick Chap (talk) 10:16, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

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