Is there a UK English language option for blogs?

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  alanstoddart · Member · Aug 18, 2011 at 2:11 pm

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  Hi I see on Language help options there is advice about switching languages, but no advice about switching from US English to UK English.

  Is there a UK English setting I can change to and where is it listed?

  Thanks
  Alan Stoddart

  Socialwelfareblog.wordpress.com
  Blog url: http://alanstoddart.wordpress.com/

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Aug 18, 2011 at 10:12 pm

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  There’s a general English setting. We don’t make any distinction between US and UK English.

  What sort of differences were you looking for?

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  alanstoddart · Member · Aug 18, 2011 at 10:19 pm

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  Words are spelt differently in US English and UK English.

  I prefer the UK English spellings. Are there no options for this on WordPress and no awareness of this issue? That’s really dissappointing.. as it is a big issue for UK English users to be able to spell words using UK English spellings..

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Aug 18, 2011 at 10:25 pm

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  As far as I know this is not a major concern as I have UK-based co-workers, but this has never been brought up before.

  The language files come from WordPress itself, which is an open source platform and always looking for folks to submit more language files.

  http://codex.wordpress.org/Contributing_to_WordPress