Since switching to Ubuntu I've had a strange problem. For some reason the spell-checker was using the British spelling of words, rather than the American one, even though all the OS settings were US English. This got to be increasingly annoying as I typed emails for work, posted things on this blog, etc. Eventually I realized that the spell-check was limited to Firefox. A little searching and I found how to change Firefox to use the US English dictionary.
- Browse to "about:config" in Firefox
- Click the "I'll be careful, I promise!" button if it appears
- In the filter box type "spellchecker". The only entry you should see on screen at this point is "spellchecker.dictionary." The value of that entry should read "en-US" for US spellings or "en-GB" for British spellings (or other things for other languages.)
- Double-click "en-GB" and change it to "en-US", then hit enter
Done! You now have a Firefox that spells words like an American (only
correctly.)
Good old Firefox, teaching the world the Queens English ;-)
ReplyDeleteThanks for the tip mate, I'll be able to get mine off the US spellings now.