Using British rather than American spelling

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  deliciousdishes1 · Member · Aug 6, 2012 at 7:54 pm

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  I prefer to write using the British spellings but the spellcheck keeps turning them into American spelling. Is there a way I can change this? I looked, but couldn’t see how to do it….

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  timethief · Member · Aug 6, 2012 at 7:57 pm

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  You can download a British spelling browser add-on if you wish.

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  deliciousdishes1 · Member · Aug 16, 2012 at 12:57 pm

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  Sorry to be dim but how would I do that??

  (Human being over 60 in the middle of the French countryside without a teenage kid to help….)

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  roughseasinthemed · Member · Aug 16, 2012 at 12:59 pm

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  Well you could always ignore the american spellings which is what I do.

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  therattlingdoor · Member · Aug 16, 2012 at 1:00 pm

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  Are you using Firefox? If so click on ‘Add-ons’ on the start page, and then in search in the add-ons page type in ‘british spelling’ there are many to choose from.

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  deliciousdishes1 · Member · Aug 16, 2012 at 9:16 pm

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  I try to use the British spelling but it insists on changing it to American….

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  timethief · Member · Aug 16, 2012 at 9:21 pm

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  I’m a Canadian who gave up British spelling ages ago. Here’s the link for a Firefox add-on > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/language-tools/