Hmmm. I had been creating new ones by right-clicking in my story-writing folder and choosing New > Microsoft Word Document and they always come up US English; I tried getting to Microsoft Word through the start menu and it did the same thing. I'm not sure how to open the program without either opening a document I've already written or creating a new one... Tools > Options > Spelling and Grammar is greyed out when no document is open, as is Languages. I have been doing everything in my power to change the global default, but to no avail -- it seems to say that's what it's doing, and warn strenuously against the perils of exposure to other cultures, and then does nothing at all.
I have trained my Firefox spellchecker extensively in culinary terms and fandom and gaming language, but it at least has a UK spelling add-on. (Interestingly this is the only add-on I have which, every time I update to a new version of Firefox, gets a message saying "You know you can get rid of this thing any gosh-darn time you like, don't y'all?" -- partly adding to my feeling of persecution.) Adding in every single word that Americans spell differently is an unacceptable solution when there are 17 different varieties of English built into the program as well as MANY other world languages, all of which it just refuses to contemplate using. I mean, what if I spoke Estonian and had to add every word in my language to a US English dictionary as a work-around?
I am contemplating something like OpenOffice. It's still made in the US, though, right? /paranoia
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Date: 2009-09-25 04:19 am (UTC)I have trained my Firefox spellchecker extensively in culinary terms and fandom and gaming language, but it at least has a UK spelling add-on. (Interestingly this is the only add-on I have which, every time I update to a new version of Firefox, gets a message saying "You know you can get rid of this thing any gosh-darn time you like, don't y'all?" -- partly adding to my feeling of persecution.) Adding in every single word that Americans spell differently is an unacceptable solution when there are 17 different varieties of English built into the program as well as MANY other world languages, all of which it just refuses to contemplate using. I mean, what if I spoke Estonian and had to add every word in my language to a US English dictionary as a work-around?
I am contemplating something like OpenOffice. It's still made in the US, though, right? /paranoia