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the U's are done away with again by the Americans - favour/ favor. the American style obviously follows the way the word is actually pronounced
I've often wondered, since the American style leaves in only one of the vowels, why doesn't it leave in the 'u'? In my mind/eye/ear, 'ur' represents the sound in words like colo[u]r more accurately than 'or'.
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