Why is 'Favourites' spelt the American way?

Hitched is a UK based site but it looks as though the programme used to run the forum is american.

then boo hiss, I lodge a petition to get it changed!!!

When y'all get to writin' software in y'alls little ole' country, y'all can decide for y'allselves how y'all is gonna spell stuff.

We all wold like to thank y'all for y'all's interest

Have a nice day.

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Given that the autocensor bans entirely innocent names like the diminutive of "Richard", while allowing good old Anglo-Saxon invective like "bollocks", I think we can have a pretty good guess as to where the software came from!