UK English spell-checker?

[Scylla]

Is it possible to have one on Pro-Boards? Or should I be able to download a third-party app? If you know what I mean.

I don't actually use a spell-checker but they do highlight typos, and it's a nuisance having words like "colour" and "travelled" underlined.

Sorry if I've missed something obvious.

scylla

[Chrissie]

There is a Proboard spell-checker Scylla, but I've never used it as I use the Firefox add on spell-checker.As far as I can see there is no way of changing the Proboards spell-checker

[Scylla]

I shall Google for an add-on for Chrome

*whispers* ... it's there in the options, waiting

Test: coloured, travelled.

OK, sorry I asked

scylla

[jerryrm]

The Proboard spell-checker is probably in American English, which means that Scylla would still get the line under "colour", because we spell it "color".

[Chrissie]

Glad to hear you are sorted Scylla

Tis about time you Americans got round to using the same spelling as us Jerry

[Scylla]

Sept 28, 2011 22:19:06 GMT @jerryrm said:

we spell it "color".

Thank you for telling me, Jerry, I'd never have known

Any road up, it's worked.

scylla

[jerryrm]

Sept 28, 2011 22:37:53 GMT Chrissie said:

Glad to hear you are sorted Scylla

Tis about time you Americans got round to using the same spelling as us Jerry

Yes ma'am........

[jerryrm]

Sept 28, 2011 23:31:17 GMT Scylla said:

Sept 28, 2011 22:19:06 GMT @jerryrm said:

we spell it "color".

Thank you for telling me, Jerry, I'd never have known

Any road up, it's worked.

scylla

Yes ma'am........

[Scylla]

I also know that your bad spelling is not accidental, and that Noah Webster done some of it deliberately

scylla

[jerryrm]

Scyl, I was wondering why we spell some words differently. Maybe it's just to conserve ink.

If I start using "ou" instead of "o", I will never hear the end of it from some of my American friends on the ECF. lol

[jerryrm]

This paragraph pretty much explains it.

"In the early 18th century, English spelling was not standardised. Differences became noticeable after the publishing of influential dictionaries. Current British English spellings follow, for the most part, those of Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language (1755), whereas many American English spellings follow Noah Webster's An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_spelling_differences

[monster74]

So ours was published first, therefore we must be right with all our spellings and as we've always suspected lol

[jerryrm]

Natz, your spelling is closer to olde English, ours is more modern. LOL

[monster74]

You trying to tell me your down with the kids Jerry?

Natzx

[jerryrm]

Naw, Natz, I'm trying to tell you that you have to get away from the Middle Ages and into the 21st Century.