Howard2k

I must be missing something simple, but the OS X spell checker checks my words against the incorrect American variants.

How can I use the correct spelling?

Favourite not Favorite etc.

mr.steevo

Do you have the US flag in the upper corner of your screen? Maybe changing it to Canadian changes the spelling?

s.

singingcrow

No. You need to type COMMAND + SHIFT + :
then you can change the spell checker to Canadian English, although it doesn't recognise Canadian english.

That alien dude from London helped me with that a while back.

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Howard2k

Thanks.


I press Commadn + Shift + : and just get a beep that it's not recognized. Do I need to do this from a particular screen?

Howard2k

Actually I think I figured it out.

I had been playing around in Preferences, International and from the main page I added Canadian English to the top of the list. The previous Language was labelled English (they should at least have called it Bastardized English or American English). I added Canadian English to the top of the list and I think that's what did it. It didn't take effect though until I logged out and then back in.

singingcrow

You have to do it from the screen you want to check.

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