British English Issues

[Guile]

Hey, does anyone know how to change my computer's spell-checking system from American English to British English? I am sick of hundreds of red lines in essays when I write "Colour, Favourite, Grey, aeroplane, aluminium, enquiry, disc, etc."

I'm not from England, never been there, don't feel any need to go there, but God knows why, I learned British English. I honestly have no idea why, noone in my family is British, and I was homeschooled until I was ten, so no teachers could have taught it to me that way, weird huh?

[escape_thereal_world]

I don't know if this will work but go to control panel, then "Region and Language" and you can choose from there. Though, I believe it depends on your internet browser if it makes corrections on there too. So, you might have to change your settings for that too, though I do not know how to.

[Revolution]

For Microsoft word? What type of computer is it?

[Guile]

Originally Posted by Coffee❤

For Microsoft word? What type of computer is it?

Windows Vista 32bit, Acer PC 2.3Ghz Processor running an Nvidia 9800+ 1024mb Graphics Card.

[Boobies]

Don't you just go File > Settings > Language?

[Guile]

Originally Posted by God.

Don't you just go File > Settings > Language?

Doesn't work like that for typing on the internet.

[Unicorn ♥✿]

Maybe Google it? LOL because this is very annoying! :P Or disable spell check?

[escape_thereal_world]

This is what information I pulled from the web. Let me know if you have a different browser you use or if you aren't able to understand parts of this.

Firefox. To change your language preferences go to Tools > Options (Windows) or Firefox > Preferences (Mac OS X), and select Content (tab) > Languages > Choose (button).

You can add languages to this from a (long) pre-defined set, and Firefox will send all the languages you choose with the Accept-Language header in the order in which you arrange them.

You can't create custom language tags using the standard interface. (You can, however, via about:config, using intl.accept_languages if you are geeky enough.)

Safari. On Mac OS X the language sent is that specified in the OS X system language preferences. To change those preferences go to System Preferences > Language & text > Language. You can have a long list of languages in this dialog box, but Safari will only send the top item with the Accept-Language header. You can't create custom language tags.

On Windows, you can't change the language sent by Safari. The language sent with the Accept-Language header is derived from your system settings.

Google Chrome. To change your language preferences go to Options (Windows) or Chrome > Preferences (Mac OS X), and select Under the Bonnet > Web Content > Languages & Spellchecker settings.

You can add languages to this from a pre-defined set, and Chrome will send all the languages you choose with the Accept-Language header in the order in which you arrange them. You can't create custom language tags.

Source

[Amember]

Originally Posted by escape_thereal_world

Firefox > Preferences (Mac OS X), and select Content (tab) > Languages > Choose (button).

No such option "Preferences", not from what I can see anyway. If this spell checking issue is for Firefox then your solution is here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...sh-dictionary/
Then just make sure you right click a section you type and go to Languages and make sure British English is checked.

[escape_thereal_world]

You go to "Tools > Options > Content > Languages"