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OmniouS wrote on January 5, 2009, 9:53pm

This annoys me because people start misspelling these sorts of words because they encounter them spelt incorrectly all the time while using a computer

.Chris wrote on January 5, 2009, 9:55pm

may be, the UK can, erm, spell right and not drink to much tea....

.Chris wrote on January 5, 2009, 10:01pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5voq1On4vw4

OmniouS wrote on January 5, 2009, 10:02pm

Don't mark this down just because you are American ;( If this change went through, words would be exactly the same for you as they are now.

BTW English originated from England so it's you guys that are spelling wrong :P

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language

.Chris wrote on January 5, 2009, 10:03pm

True, but yet, what does thwe US offer that England doesnt? a lot .

plus you guys think you know everything...

OmniouS wrote on January 5, 2009, 10:05pm

Youtube just recently started asking for location to change words such as favourites

Heh interesting vid Chris. Luckily I'm not from the UK but from New Zealand :P
I don't think we know everything. This shouldnt be an England vs US war.. I just want certain words spellt the same as they are where I live ;)

Ensign Joe wrote on January 5, 2009, 10:10pm

British English sucks. Best example: CENTRE...

.Chris wrote on January 5, 2009, 10:12pm

Exactly.

CENT-ER

ER like errrrrrr

The UK verson is more like

CENT-RE

RE like were

centwere?

OmniouS wrote on January 5, 2009, 10:13pm

Haha yeah I agree with you on that one

.Chris wrote on January 5, 2009, 10:14pm

Problem is theres ot a lot and it could mess up the actual US verson.... anmd we dont want that.


You UK people are smart, you should know what "color" is..

may be we should have a tea cup theme for them..

tino wrote on January 5, 2009, 10:39pm

It is another language so why isn't there another language pack for it?

SarahONL wrote on January 5, 2009, 10:44pm

I agree with this submission 100%

I mean you can get language packs for some f$%$%g weird languages out there, why not for British english too. More and more applications & webpages are providing a British English option. Like OmniouS wrote before, Youtube has done this. Mozilla has British english releases of Firefox and Thunderbird that download by default if you are in a British english speaking location - England, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa

It is a f$%*$g insult seeing the word Favourites spelt wrong every day

hoopla_punta wrote on January 6, 2009, 12:49am

@Chris: Well if American english rocks chris i suggest you spell it with PRIDE and less spelling errors like weather and quark and Adium and many other that I decided not to embarrass your coloUrs with...

@Sarah: Thats why we'd like to call it bookmarks.

.Chris wrote on January 6, 2009, 7:15am

Hoppla Adium is a program

http://www.adiumx.com/

and never did I once say it "rocks"

litemininyuszika wrote on January 6, 2009, 4:08pm

+1!
Thank you very much, I'm now know color, favorites, center are in US, and colour, favourites, centre are in UK! I'm very confused before reading this, because I can't understand why there is two of them:

color - colour
favorites - favourites
center - centre

etc.

.Chris wrote on January 6, 2009, 4:22pm

Colour ? sounds like cal - our?

Center? Cent our?

Soulburner wrote on January 7, 2009, 6:22pm

+1

Some Americans think they rule the world and whatever they do is right ;) If British, Australian and New Zealand english uses different spelling, Windows should change it accordingly.

austrazilian wrote on January 17, 2009, 12:48am

@ Chris: mate, if you already changed words like centre to center, why did you not change hassle to hassel? After all it is a LOT simpler for americans to spell...you kind of need the kick! :D

thommck wrote on January 21, 2009, 9:53am

+1 (I'm English)

I have often commented about this directly to Microsoft at educational events (I worked as IT manager in a school for 5 years).
The official line was that they would like to spend more time developing language packs for new/unsupported languages than correct a few spellings.
However I don't think that argument really stands. Surely it would only take about 30 mins for some UK Microsoft employee to search and replace the relevant spellings or better still open it up so you people could develop their own language packs and have Windows in Gobbledegook or Klingon if the so desire.

It was really nice to see a UK theme applied by default in the beta (even though many countries actually share the same images!) so it would be nice to take this a step further.

Alternatively, don't use words in an OS that are spelt differently in different English-speaking countries (i.e. Firefox uses "Bookmarks")

Jane wrote on May 13, 2010, 6:17pm

Goodness, what very stupid comments! Words like centre are so spelled because so much of the English language derives from Norman French (1066 and all that) as does colour etc.
When settlers went over to America the distance meant that words and language became diluted so Americans spell words one way and we spell them the original and correct way. The Americanisation of our language infuriates me so you keep your spelling on your side of the Atlantic and we will keep ours on this side but remember you only speak English because of us - you could have been speaking Dutch or French if wars had gone the other way. My Mac had both American and English spelling so why can't Microsoft?