Statements from several Europeans on this thread as well as people I've talked to personally say otherwise. The Canadians and Australians are closer to English than American too, language-wise.

EDIT: And I believe some parts of Asia too, despite the fact that I just saw Caerulo write "paedophiles" without the a on another thread, although the Phillipines (I hate that word) seem to use more American stuff than English stuff.

About the p(a)edophile thing, I didn't know how to spell it, so I used Word spellcheck, which is set to American, just because the British dictionary switched some of my keys around.

And yes, Singapore uses British spelling, but that's because we were once a British colony. There have been people arguing why we should be using Queen's English rather than American English.

I find British spellings to be much better looking, but harder to remember. Like Oestrogen vs Estrogen.

I tend to follow a similar train of thought. I like the standard English spellings for a lot of words (although I do love my 'z's) but Word is always mean about adding an extra 'u' into colour. Actually, now that I think about it, I think my tendency to steal British spelling started around the same time I started playing Aetolia...back when I was 12.

For the record I live in the north-east United States.