On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 10:10 -0400, Colin J. Williams wrote:
> Jonathon Coombes wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 10:49 +0300, Reg Kennedy wrote:
> > 
> >>I've been using 1.4 and now trying the 2.0 beta. In each it seems I can't 
> >>have 
> >>the Thesaurus if I want to use UK English.
> >>Can anyone help, please?
> > 
> > 
> > Hi Reg,
> > 
> > This is one of the helps in the OpenOffice.org Knowledgebase
> > that is available at http://mindmeld.cybersite.com.au.
> > Simply ask it about a UK Thesaurus and you will get your
> > answer.
> > 
> > Regards
> > Jonathon
> This appears to propose accepting the American Thesaurus and labelling 
> it UK.
> 
> Is there much difference between the Australian/Canadian/Indian/NZ/GB 
> versions?

With a thesaurus we are talking about synonyms etc, not spellings.
So if I have a word "pleasure", then it will show what other words
in English (UK,AU,US or otherwise) that can be used as alternatives.
Once finished, you could do a spellcheck with your native en dictionary.

Regards
Jonathon


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