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[emmelinemay]

Since my last firefox add-on update, my spellchecker refuses to recognise the word 'recognise' and insists that it should be spelled 'recognize'.

Ditto for 'organize', 'commercialize', and pretty much anything else that ends 'ise'.

I've double checked my spelling add-on, I've definitely got the English UK one, not the English US one. I re-installed it, juts to make sure.

Grrrr.

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[jaketherat.livejournal.com]

Juts to make sure?

*ducks*

MSWord has exactly the same problem. I think someone at Microsoft has decided that UK English is just plain wrong and we need to be corrected.

[emmelinemay.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I am a horrible typist, I transpose letters all the time, and type faster than I really am able to. I just type the whole lot then go back and fix the spelling afterwards! I'm pretty good with grammar and punctuation, but my spelling isn't great - that's why I need a spellchecker!!

Word 2007 isn't so bad, you can change the default to English UK, and it doesn't revert all the time the way that last one used to.

[jaketherat.livejournal.com]

I do exactly the same, it juts amused me that it cropped up in a post about spellcheckers. Perhaps an extension of Lyssa's rule about grammar related posts.

Spot the deliberate mistake? :)

[emmelinemay.livejournal.com]

It's not just Lyssa's rule, it is one of the Rules Of The Internet that any comment correcting someone's grammar or spelling is extremely likely to contain a grammatical or spelling error!

Transposed letters annoy me far less than people who spell the same word wrong OVER and OVER again, or who clearly don't use a spell checker at all.

[miss-soap.livejournal.com]

British English requires -ize, not US English.

I didn't realise this until I had a very long argument in favour of -ise with my Francophone business partner and lost after checking the OED and Chambers.

I was very surprised and it still feels very wrong.

[greeba.livejournal.com]

I noticed that. I deleted the 'US English' dictionary and the damn thing reinstalled itself without asking.

And there's no such thing as US English anyway, grrr

[crazymeandave.livejournal.com]

us english would disagree with you.

[tintintin.livejournal.com]

"-ize" is actually a kosher UK spelling; we have the luxury of choice, and both are listed as correct in the OED, I think. (although yes, I much, MUCH prefer the relatively elegant-seeming "-ise")