british english

British Dictionary

It finally got to me, having ignored it for a long time, red underlines under my words no more! I’m talking about how Mac OS X decided that despite living in the UK, I really should spell colour without the u and stick a z in everything else. I over exaggerate of course and maybe it’s my fault.

I finally looked up how to stop it (without right-clicking on each word and having the Mac learn it).

If you’re British too and want to banish those red underlines. Here’s what to do:


Open System Preferences and select International.

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Click on Edit List...

From the drop down window tick British English and press OK. Make sure: Order for Sorted Lists, is set to English.

Log out or restart and you’re done.


Update: A much quicker way comes from Christopher Phin of
MacFormat:

“...an easier way to switch to British English is
to right-click on any word, choose Spelling and Grammar > Show Spelling and Grammar and then switch from 'English' to 'British English'. Hardly obvious, but an essential tweak for a new Mac!”

I don’t think I’d’ve ever found that one. Thanks to him.