English vs American Spelling

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English vs American Spelling

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My control setting is British English yet when I use correct spelling, it always red lines it and wants to see incorrect American spelling.

WHY? :-o
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TOG wrote: Wed Sep 12, 2018 3:50 pm My control setting is British English yet when I use correct spelling, it always red lines it and wants to see incorrect American spelling.

WHY? :-o
You mean on this forum? I'd blame Gonk.
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StroppyChops wrote: Wed Sep 12, 2018 3:51 pm
TOG wrote: Wed Sep 12, 2018 3:50 pm My control setting is British English yet when I use correct spelling, it always red lines it and wants to see incorrect American spelling.

WHY? :-o
You mean on this forum? I'd blame Gonk.
Yeh dude, this forum.

Please excuse my ignorance, who is Gonk?
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TOG wrote: Wed Sep 12, 2018 3:55 pm
StroppyChops wrote: Wed Sep 12, 2018 3:51 pm
TOG wrote: Wed Sep 12, 2018 3:50 pm My control setting is British English yet when I use correct spelling, it always red lines it and wants to see incorrect American spelling.

WHY? :-o
You mean on this forum? I'd blame Gonk.
Yeh dude, this forum.

Please excuse my ignorance, who is Gonk?
The owner of the board, who is patriotically American.
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dont think its the setting in CEO, its ur phone or laptop or PC, windows keyboard language setting
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Re: English vs American Spelling

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StroppyChops wrote: Wed Sep 12, 2018 4:00 pm
TOG wrote: Wed Sep 12, 2018 3:55 pm
StroppyChops wrote: Wed Sep 12, 2018 3:51 pm
TOG wrote: Wed Sep 12, 2018 3:50 pm My control setting is British English yet when I use correct spelling, it always red lines it and wants to see incorrect American spelling.

WHY? :-o
You mean on this forum? I'd blame Gonk.
Yeh dude, this forum.

Please excuse my ignorance, who is Gonk?
The owner of the board, who is patriotically American.
Team America. F*ck yeah! Cool link, Mr Stroppy.
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StroppyChops wrote: Wed Sep 12, 2018 4:00 pm Please excuse my ignorance, who is Gonk?
The owner of the board, who is patriotically American.
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Ah, the Jim Royle wannabe.

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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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TOG wrote: Wed Sep 12, 2018 4:09 pm
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.
Well, quite seriously (and this gets bashed about every few months or so), they don't. They speak American, or 'Murican as other posters refer to it. Call it American English if you like, but ... no.
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Re: English vs American Spelling

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labor neighbor color

labour neighbour colour

My Brit spelling setting does not trigger the first word "labor" as wrong but caught the other two words.
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