Bill needs to find information on the labor movement with British spelling Labour. Which search string would best include both British and American spellings?

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The idea is to capture spelling variants with a single search string. British and American versions of the word share a base, so using a wildcard after that base allows the search to match both labor and labour. Writing British American labo* combines the two language cues with a root that covers both endings, so you get results about both spellings without listing them separately. This works well in many search tools because the asterisk stands for one or more characters, letting you pull in either labor or labour (and related forms). The other options either fix one spelling, try to quote a specific phrase that won’t catch one variant, or exclude one spelling, which defeats the goal of including both.