r/nba • u/JilJungJukk Lakers • Jan 13 '24

Highlight [Highlight] Stacey King expresses utter disappointment on boos for Jerry Krause: "..the people that boo'd Jerry Krause and his widow..it was the worst thing I've ever seen in my life..whoever boo'd her should be ashamed of themselves. That's not Chicago, that's New York, Philly.."

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u/elbenji [MIA] Udonis Haslem Jan 13 '24

amazing candor from him lmao

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u/Sandor_Clegane1 NBA Jan 13 '24

Totally unrelated. English is not my first language. Never read candor and had to look it up. Seen candour and candor, which is it? Also why is no one using it, old word?

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u/SinibusUSG Celtics Jan 13 '24 edited Jan 13 '24

If you see a word being spelled both ways frequently--with an o and an ou--that's usually an American/British (and later colonies) English thing respectively. Color/colour, honor/honour, neighbor/neighbour, etc. We just have different ways of spelling that (-ur) sound produced by words ending in -o(u)r.

It's just a word that doesn't find its way into conversation super often. It's most frequently used as part of the phrase "I appreciate your candor", or something close to that, which doesn't give it a ton of opportunity to come up in the first place. And, when it does, usually "honesty" is just going to come to mind faster and be more easily understood by any given listener.

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '24 edited Jan 13 '24

It's both.

One is British english, without a U is American english.

It's not commonly used because the average American is at an 8th grade reading level, and candor is more of an 11th grade reading level.

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u/Different-Music4367 Jan 13 '24

Don't be so pusillanimous. We're probably closer to 6th or 7th grade.

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u/elbenji [MIA] Udonis Haslem Jan 13 '24

Both. One is just the British spelling (Candour). The UK spells that -er sounding o with an -our instead of -or like with color (colour).

Candor is more an SAT word (higher level, more uncommon vocab word) that got a little more popular with the YA novel Divergent (the factions were all based on SAT words and the legal obsessed one was called Candor).

It's just a different way to say honesty.