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Thread ID: 120686 2011-09-20 23:50:00 Is it unprofessional to use American spelling DeSade (984) PC World Chat
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1232608 2011-09-22 02:35:00 Just been looking up your itinerary on GoogleEarth, SJ. Snowflake is quite a nice name for a town of 5000 but I can't say the same about the street names!

Giving Las Vegas a miss? Hard times there - they need your tourist dollars.

I have happy memories of a week-long visit to Las Vegas 15 years ago. Walked to the old part of town (wedding chapel end). Caesar's Palace impressed me most.

My regards to Lieutenant (or is it Captain?) Dangler when you pass through Reno. Every so often we have an international Rugby tournament here in Wellington when all the fans put on fancy dress - the Reno police dept is usually one of the best acts! 		BBCmicro (15761)
1232609 2011-09-22 02:55:00 Just been looking up your itinerary on GoogleEarth, SJ. Snowflake is quite a nice name for a town of 5000 but I can't say the same about the street names!

Giving Las Vegas a miss? Hard times there - they need your tourist dollars.

I have happy memories of a week-long visit to Las Vegas 15 years ago. Walked to the old part of town (wedding chapel end). Caesar's Palace impressed me most.

My regards to Lieutenant (or is it Captain?) Dangler when you pass through Reno. Every so often we have an international Rugby tournament here in Wellington when all the fans put on fancy dress - the Reno police dept is usually one of the best acts!

I avoid Las Vegas as a habit. I don't gamble, but the last time I was there I went only to see The Blue Man Group. I stayed at a friend's casino and left the next morning.

Phoenix was hot and super smoggy today, although moist of their smog is the brown photo-chemical stuff that doesn't seem to bother me much at all. It's the Nitrous Oxide that drops me to the ground coughing until I invert my large intestine and evert it. Not nice to see.

What's "rugby"?

Did you see 'Deuce Of Clubs' street in Show Low? A cute story and when I get off this Eee=PC I'll write it out for you. Remind me about it - wot? 		SurferJoe46 (51)
1232610 2011-09-22 04:00:00 When reciting the alphabet, 'Z' is pronounced as Zed.

When Z is used in combination with other letters, for instance 'Zealand', the Z is pronounced as Zee.

We need a Schoolmaster avatar with a big stick here

I've always said Y and Zee.
It said that on just about everything i listened to and or watched etc.. most computer games also said Zee. 		goodiesguy (15316)
1232611 2011-09-22 04:02:00 Yes that worked. I'm reasonably sure I have done that in the past. I think it reverts.

I now have some test words. I will check them before I start editing and re-apply your advice if they revert:
(The first column is preferred or at least acceptable in UK English and none of the words in that column should be underlined in Word)

colour color
neighbour neighbor
behaviour behavior
favourite favorite
theatre theater
manoeuvre maneuver
defence defense
realise realize
organise organize
analyse analyze
analogue analog
catalogue catalog
caesium cesium
cancelled canceled
travelling traveling
wilful willful
instalment installment
ageing aging
sizeable sizable
artefact artifact
cosy cozy
grey gray
kerb curb
mould mold
omelette omelet
plough plow
sceptic skeptic
sulphur sulfur
tyre tire
Mr Mr.
litre liter

I use the second side (american spelling) far more. some of those on the left looked just wrong to me. 		goodiesguy (15316)
1232612 2011-09-22 04:03:00 It said that on just about everything i listened to and or watched etc.. most computer games also said Zee.


Still doesn't make it right :) 		Zippity (58)
1232613 2011-10-07 23:33:00 I set my Word 2007 document to UK English as advised by (PCuser42?) and all was sweet. My list of words with different UK and US spellings at the end of the document correctly flagged all the US spellings as wrong and all the UK spellings as right.

NOW some of the words are changing back to US spelling. (A bit like the Back to the Future movies where Marty's picture gradually gets erased.)

Here is the list at present. The asterisk shows US spellings that are now marked as correct:

colour color
neighbour neighbor
behaviour behavior
favourite favorite
theatre theater
manoeuvre maneuver
defence defense
realise realize*
organise organize*
analyse analyze*
analogue analog
catalogue catalog
caesium cesium
cancelled canceled
travelling traveling
wilful willful
instalment installment
ageing aging*
sizeable sizable*
artefact artifact
cosy cozy
grey gray*
kerb curb*
mould mold
omelette omelet
plough plow
sceptic skeptic
sulphur sulfur
tyre tire*
Mr Mr.*
litre liter
centre center

This list is at the end of my document and I haven't touched it (or beyond it) in any way. I suspect it's sloppy programming. App doesn't go to the ini or preferences file but takes the default.

I've met that in the past:

- video editor reverting to NTSC at the slightest hint of anything unusual
- Google not remembering I want results opened in a new window
- my printers reverting to Letter instead of A4
- and now Word 2007 not remembering UK spelling

No doubt there are other examples 		BBCmicro (15761)
1232614 2011-10-08 04:06:00 tyre tire*

I believe that's fine, as one can tire out from doing something exhausting. :) 		pcuser42 (130)
1232615 2011-10-08 05:17:00 A pomgolian would say that wouldn't he? prefect (6291)
1232616 2011-10-08 21:57:00 I set my Word 2007 document to UK English as advised by (PCuser42?) and all was sweet . My list of words with different UK and US spellings at the end of the document correctly flagged all the US spellings as wrong and all the UK spellings as right .

NOW some of the words are changing back to US spelling . (A bit like the Back to the Future movies where Marty's picture gradually gets erased . )

Here is the list at present . The asterisk shows US spellings that are now marked as correct:

colour color
neighbour neighbor
behaviour behavior
favourite favorite
theatre theater
manoeuvre maneuver
defence defense
realise realize*
organise organize*
analyse analyze*
analogue analog
catalogue catalog
caesium cesium
cancelled canceled
travelling traveling
wilful willful
instalment installment
ageing aging*
sizeable sizable*
artefact artifact
cosy cozy
grey gray*
kerb curb*
mould mold
omelette omelet
plough plow
sceptic skeptic
sulphur sulfur
tyre tire*
Mr Mr . *
litre liter
centre center

This list is at the end of my document and I haven't touched it (or beyond it) in any way . I suspect it's sloppy programming . App doesn't go to the ini or preferences file but takes the default .

I've met that in the past:

- video editor reverting to NTSC at the slightest hint of anything unusual
- Google not remembering I want results opened in a new window
- my printers reverting to Letter instead of A4
- and now Word 2007 not remembering UK spelling

No doubt there are other examples

It's not unprofessional to use American spelling if you're not American yourself - it's just un-American .

@Marnie - the prevalence of American spelling probably less to do with Noah Webster and more to do with the ubiquity of Microsoft products, especially Word .

@BBCmicro - You'll have to access your 'normal . dot' and change the language setting there .

Locate it by looking at your File Locations in your Options menu option in Word . Then, after closing Word, open Windows Explorer and navigate to that location . Right-click the "normal . dot" file and choose "Open" (not "New", or you'll just create a new document rather than amending the template) . Then press <Ctrl> + A to highlight everything in the document (there shouldn't be anything, but <Ctrl> + A anyway) and then change the language settings, making sure you tick the option that says something like "Use this setting for all documents based on normal . dot" .

Save the template . and when you reopen Word it should be set . 		johcar (6283)
1232617 2011-10-09 03:09:00 Locate it by looking at your File Locations in your Options menu option in Word. Then, after closing Word, open Windows Explorer and navigate to that location. Right-click the "normal.dot" file and choose "Open" (not "New", or you'll just create a new document rather than amending the template). Then press <Ctrl> + A to highlight everything in the document (there shouldn't be anything, but <Ctrl> + A anyway) and then change the language settings, making sure you tick the option that says something like "Use this setting for all documents based on normal.dot". Save the template. and when you reopen Word it should be set.

Thanks - have now done that. It's not something I tried before now. I note that "Use this setting for all documents based on normal.dot" is under a tab labelled 'default'.

@PCuser42 Yes I thought of 'tire' being UK, and also 'curb'. But all words in the right hand column were flagged wrong originally... 		BBCmicro (15761)
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