Ross Johnson wrote:
I thought it wasn't working either, because it didn't catch the one word
I used to experiment with, which was 'customize', although the en-US
spell check caught 'customise'.
But the reason for that is simple - 'customise' isn't in either the GB
or AU .dict file (and neither is 'custom' - so the GB affix rules don't
work either - although 'customised' and 'customary' are in there but
probably don't need to be), but 'customize' *is* in the US .dict file.
There is also the User Interface language, and the only choice in my
copy is Default or English (USA). The reason I used 'customize' in my
spell check test was because that was the first word in the menus that I
found that has American spelling.
Perhaps this is what Nick is upset about.
Actually the UK dictionary doesn't generally catch words that may have
either an -ize or -ise suffix because both are acceptable in Britain (at
least to those who aren't caught up in a religious war on this matter).
MS Word's spell check for U.K. English also recognizes both both -ize
and -ise spelling variations for many words.
The Oxford English Dictionary family supports "customize" and similar
forms with a -ize suffix. The majority of other British English
dictionaries also favour -ize forms. But the -ise forms are those mostly
taught in schools and more generally used in popular publishing and by
most publications issuing from Cambridge University.
The United Nations offices generally use Oxford English Dictionary
English and -ize forms. The European Union has standardized (or
standardised) on the -ise forms.
Iana recognizes the special language tag en-GB-oed referring to British
English spellings following the Oxford English dictionary in use of -ize
suffixes in opposition to the currently more popular en-GB -ise
spellings. See http://www.iana.org/assignments/language-tags .
Jallan
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