American spelling

[The Brewer]

Terse = what Yorkshire folk follow at funerals

 

[Maz]

Buy a mac, mac....

"Did someone say double mac?..."

 

[Night Train]

Due to being Admin on an American forum I am now almost bilingual.

 

[Leaway2]

It hadn't quite percolated through to conscious thought, but now you mention it - yes, it is annoying ...

... especially since I have already selected 'GB English' in my browser settings!

I'm going to investigate this!

Did you fix it? Try right clicking the keyboard in your systray (bott right), settings. Sorry if if am teaching granny to suck eggs.


Oooops sorry just read the rest of the thread. Doh.

 

[totallyfixed]

Try this (found online):

During Windows installation, you're prompted to select a language. If you choose British English at this point, you'll be spell checking in British English. If you didn't choose British English at installation, then you'll have to manually change it by going to
Settings > Show advanced settings > Languages and spell-checker settings and follow the intuitive menus you see there. If you need more help, search your Chrome help files, looking for the term "spell-check".

Been there, done that except the last bit though I went there for help a few weeks ago when I kept getting silly messages like "your preferences cannnot be read" and they were no help at all. I think I may be suffering from flagging faith in Google.

 

[ColinJ]

Been there, done that except the last bit though I went there for help a few weeks ago when I kept getting silly messages like "your preferences cannnot be read" and they were no help at all. I think I may be suffering from flagging faith in Google.

I ought to try Chrome but at the moment I use Opera by default, then fall back to Firefox if Opera can't cope with a site, and as a last resort - Internet Explorer.

 

[ELPTX51]

"Yank" here (although from south of the Mason Dixon line so I use that term loosely) sitting quietly on the sidelines watching you all complain about an American product. I have an idea! Why doesnt a Brit come up with a browser all your own?
Commence flaming now.

 

[Hover Fly]

Study the linked photo carefully, then find something important to worry over
http://www.photoeverywhere.co.uk/br.../hoad_monument_ulverstonPC197552_jpg_orig.htm

 

[tadpole]

"Yank" here (although from south of the Mason Dixon line so I use that term loosely) sitting quietly on the sidelines watching you all complain about an American product. I have an idea! Why doesnt a Brit come up with a browser all your own?
Commence flaming now.

We did invent a browser all of own, and like a lot of things that the Brits invent, but Yanks use it's soon forgotten who did it first, and best.
Well done Tim Berners-Lee! we still believe.

 

[ELPTX51]

Well put Tadppole, but the discussion wasn't focused on the designs of Mr. Berners-Lee. The discussion was about web browsers and spell checkers in those browsers. The American web designers took over and evolved the product into one that became useful to billions of users. If Microsoft, Google and Apple dont meet your needs then by all means feel free to use the British model that you feel was "best." I'm not saying that these are the only ones or that any one of the major browsers dont come with trade-offs. Quite the opposite. But to bash a product because the Yanks made it based on our version of your language seems short sighted. Simple solution. Use yours.

 

[Marshmallow_Fluff]

"Yank" here (although from south of the Mason Dixon line so I use that term loosely) sitting quietly on the sidelines watching you all complain about an American product. I have an idea! Why doesnt a Brit come up with a browser all your own?
Commence flaming now.

Nice one!

(beer? )

 

[MontyVeda]

I used to work for an internet marketing company who couldn't decide whether or not to use 'optimisation' or 'optimization' on their website... my opinion was that, seeing as we're a UK company, we should really use the UK spelling. However after numerous meetings, they still couldn't decide so opted to use the UK spelling, but put the US spelling in brackets (or is it parentheses?) after every occurrence. So littered throughout their website it said "...search engine optimisation (optimization)..." over and over again.

Doh!

thankfully that company was doomed.

some US spellings i quite like, such as 'specialty' as opposed to 'speciality' .. but 'color' does my nut in.

 

[ELPTX51]

Gladly! Only make mine British or German. We REALLY did screw beer up.

 

[PpPete]

Gladly! Only make mine British or German. We REALLY did screw beer up.

But in Texas you have Shiner Bock....

 

[totallyfixed]

But in Texas you have Shiner Bock....

And Lance Armstrong.........