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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.

[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

[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")