Molding or Moulding?

[pelligrini]

A coworker asked me: is it molding or moulding; which is the appropriate spelling? I answered: is it rotting or trim?

My dictionary of Architecture and Construction says;
mould, moulding - British variants of mold, molding.

I wonder if the british architectural dictionary says molding is an american corruption of moulding?

I've always spelled it moulding.

[dbhost]

A coworker asked me: is it molding or moulding; which is the appropriate spelling? I answered: is it rotting or trim?

My dictionary of Architecture and Construction says;
mould, moulding - British variants of mold, molding.

I wonder if the british architectural dictionary says molding is an american corruption of moulding?

I've always spelled it moulding.

In United States English, it is spelled without the U...

Is it neighbor, or neighbour? See the difference?

I don't speak English, I speak American Y'all!

[herb fellows]

It depends on what colour it is, he said, tongue firmly planted in cheek.

[RAFlorida]

Where is Ray

When you need him?

[crokett]

I spell it moulding. That (in my mind) differentiates it from the verb molding, as in growing icky stuff on something. It also differentiates it because 'mold' is icky.

[Richard in Smithville]

Any Canadian will tell you that you need the "u" .

[Alex Franke]

Moulding costs more.

Interesting, pelligrini, that your American version inserts the "u" instead of the British...

[drumpriest]

With the U, though I often spell such things with the U, such as armour, etc....

[RayintheUK]

I wonder if the british architectural dictionary says molding is an american corruption of moulding?

British Architectural Dictionaries do not even mention "molding," because it is a corruption and the word does not exist over here.

Where is Ray when you need him?

I was here at 00.47 my time, when you posted, but I was asleep, sorry!

Ray

[Uncle Cracker]

I spell it "trim"...

[Pappy]

I spell it "trim"...

Unc beat me to it!

[LarryG]

"Moulding" is correct on this side of the pond, too. It's not a matter of proper spelling, but rather proper terminology.

[gsmittle]

I was in Lowe's this morning, and they spelled it "moulding." If Lowe's isn't an authority, nobody is.

g.

[Shep]

I guess when God made me he broke the "Mould"