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tchrist
tchrist
3:22 AM
@TRiG Good spellcheckers have the possibility of specifying a language preference of “en_GB-oed”, which means British English with Oxford spelling. Some call it something else.
Sometimes it is en-GB-oed, although that technically means something else.
You might also see whether en_CA doesn’t work out a bit better. I find it does for me, but that might be too far afield for you. I never realized I actually prefer Canadian spellings wherever they different from American ones.
I find that older people are used to the so-called Canadian spellings, too. It is as though some idiot enforcement agency whipped America into toeing some blathering line of homogeneity of worst-case spelling in the last 50 years.
It didn’t used to be that people would call spelling variants “wrong” the way they are apt to do today.
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Q: UK spelling dictionary - teach OS X *all* -ize spellings

dan8394The British spelling dictionary in OS X is customized to UK spellings, a very useful feature. However, the designers have made the unfortunate choice of only listing -ise endings for words such as advertise, customise, etc. Many Brits, such as myself, prefer the -ize spelling. In Lion, auto corr...

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I use -ize wherever it goes. But I won’t use -yze. I use -yse there.
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A: UK spelling dictionary - teach OS X *all* -ize spellings

CoreySwitching to Canadian English will sort the problem out, and seems to allow other British spelling variants, such as programme and connexion. I share your frustration: -ize is not an Americanism (although -yse is) but is standard British English (alongside the -ise variant) and preferred by Oxfor...

-yse is an Americanism? I don’t think so. Analyse is not American.
 

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