POC: > > It isn't. Acknowledgment and acknowledgement are both accepted, like > > judgement and judgment. British vs US English.
Stephen Morris: > Hi Patrick, that is interesting. I'm using an Australian database in > Thunderbird and that told me it should be spelt with the "e". I know the > American and English spelling differences can be accepted, but I thought > the spelling of that word was universal. I had to laugh at someone's mocked-up "choose your language" screen, where they had choose English (with a UK flag) or Simplified English (with a US flag). Australian English often isn't available as a choice, and the other two are often wrong for us. Our language is getting tainted by Americanisms because of this, our local newspaper gave up fighting against the US-only spell-checker it had, and US English if often the default on a plethora of things. The only Australian dictionary I could add to Firefox the last time I looked was verging on being malware, so any website thing that lets me type into it (e.g. Facebook keeps flagging this as wrong when they aren't). Many years ago, I used to load up a perfectly typed document into word processors and just add every word it objected to to its dictionary, as my quick reprogramming of that nonsense. Though because I write a lot of technical things, virtually every term get flagged up and pages are nightmare of highlighted jargon. So my spell-checker is often left switched off. They're mostly a typo-checker for me, anyway, my speelung is weely quit gud. Often I find the most basic words get flagged. For instance, in an email I just posted, Evolution insists that "movie" is not a real word. And you often find a similar thing when it objects to words *correctly* pluralised by adding an "s" to the end of them. It offers no obvious interface to edit any modifications you've made to its dictionary, you have to do that externally if you make a mistake. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 (yes, this is the output from uname for this PC when I posted) Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
