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I was talking about the govenor on a armanda scooter 2605:8D80:4C1:3AA8:BB46:2FCE:2E25:938C (talk) 20:39, 7 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Mr. Governor or Mr. Bill Lee something needs to be done about the housing market. The rent has gone up so high I have a widow in the church and she was paying $1500 a month and her landlord raised the rent $500-$2000 a month, something needs to be done all these people moving here from the west and from out of state is causing the housing market to skyrocket and people cannot afford to rent. I cannot afford to rent the majority of people in the community make $30,000 a year unless they are married a single person cannot afford to live by themselves. They have to have a roommate , something needs to be done. You are the only one that can do something about this please governor, take a look and do something about the housing market in our community in Knoxville Tennessee. It’s out of control. Rent is too high it cannot be afforded. 2600:1004:B105:627C:580E:AF85:387:2FA0 (talk) 13:19, 16 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I've been doing a lot of research on the proto-American Jamestown, Virginia colony of the 1600s, and a lot of books use the spelling governour to describe the Virginia Governor's Council (which was part of England). I also saw this note:

"A partial revival of -or on the Latin model took place from 16th century. (governour began to lose its -u- 16c. and it was gone by 19c.), and also among phonetic spellers in both England and America (John Wesley wrote that -or was "a fashionable impropriety" in England in 1791)."

This indicates to me that "governour" is (or was) an acceptable spelling, and this article should be audited for American English bias. I will endeavour to research more etymology references! StevePrutz (talk) 12:28, 20 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]