English vs American Spelling

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Re: English vs American Spelling

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TOG wrote:
bolueeleh wrote: Wed Sep 12, 2018 4:02 pm dont think its the setting in CEO, its ur phone or laptop or PC, windows keyboard language setting
Nope, its the CEO. All of my keyboard setting have American English banned from them.

I lived in the US of A for seven years and finally gave up trying to teach my red neck, Blue Ridge Mountain, Old Dominion workforce how to speak, read and write English. A total lost cause.
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So we have a bastardised/barstardized spell checker.

Note that both spellings of the word Barstardised are in the Oxford English dictionary yet both get red lined on CEO.

Is this an attempt to introduce a CEO English dictionary?

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I'd give your system setting one more check - mine is running an image from a local supplier of, err, images and is defaulted to American English ('Murican) which I hadn't bothered to change, CEO is set to British English, but the CEO spell checker seems to default to the system language.

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StroppyChops wrote:CEO is set to British English, but the CEO spell checker seems to default to the system language.

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We have a spell checker on CEO? That is honestly news to me.

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General Mackevili wrote: Wed Sep 12, 2018 4:50 pm
StroppyChops wrote:CEO is set to British English, but the CEO spell checker seems to default to the system language.

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We have a spell checker on CEO? That is honestly news to me.
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StroppyChops wrote: Wed Sep 12, 2018 4:28 pm I'd give your system setting one more check - mine is running an image from a local supplier of, err, images and is defaulted to American English ('Murican) which I hadn't bothered to change, CEO is set to British English, but the CEO spell checker seems to default to the system language.

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British English all the way down.

Bit too complicated for now as the missus says I have to get changed and go out and dig up some potatoes and cut some courgettes. She is using the excuse of an injured hand to get out of her daily tasks.
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TOG wrote: Wed Sep 12, 2018 4:55 pm British English all the way down.

Bit too complicated for now as the missus says I have to get changed and go out and dig up some potatoes and cut some courgettes. She is using the excuse of an injured hand to get out of her daily tasks.
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StroppyChops wrote: Wed Sep 12, 2018 4:54 pm
General Mackevili wrote: Wed Sep 12, 2018 4:50 pm
StroppyChops wrote:CEO is set to British English, but the CEO spell checker seems to default to the system language.

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We have a spell checker on CEO? That is honestly news to me.
You have other people to worry about the small details, oh Mighty Rabbit.
LoL. Surely that spell checker that underlines your faulty words in RED is either your system or your browser checker, right? I also get an option to save some words it marks as 'wrong.' Surely those get saved in my browser or computer, and not on CEO, right?

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General Mackevili wrote: Wed Sep 12, 2018 5:37 pm
StroppyChops wrote: Wed Sep 12, 2018 4:54 pm
General Mackevili wrote: Wed Sep 12, 2018 4:50 pm
StroppyChops wrote:CEO is set to British English, but the CEO spell checker seems to default to the system language.

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We have a spell checker on CEO? That is honestly news to me.
You have other people to worry about the small details, oh Mighty Rabbit.
LoL. Surely that spell checker that underlines your faulty words in RED is either your system or your browser checker, right? I also get an option to save some words it marks as 'wrong.' Surely those get saved in my browser or computer, and not on CEO, right?

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Re: English vs American Spelling

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Well that pisses me off. I cannot blame CEO but don't expect an apology, that's a sign of weakness, right? All hail the Gonk.

It turned out to be the VPN I was using through Opera browser and while using the VPN, it won't let me change the settings.

Also my back hurts after digging up 2 rows of potatoes.
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