Superfluous –adjective
1. being more than is sufficient or required; excessive.
2. unnecessary or needless.
3. Obsolete. possessing or spending more than enough or necessary; extravagant.
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I mean c'mon dude...do ANY of us ever pronounce those words as "col-OUR" or "hum-OUR"??? So why do you guys still have that darn "u" in there, HUH???!!!

Yep! We Yanks can thank good ol' Noah Webster for seein' right through(or should that be "thru") all that "superfluous U" stuff in this here language, ya know!

(man...and here we thought this thread had ALREADY taken "an ugly turn" quite a bit EARLIER here, huh?!)

Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)