Something I observed yesterday (August 13) while writing a blog. I used to spell the word as ‘judgement’ but my word dictionary red underlined it and then on auto correcting modified it to ‘judgment’. Out of curiosity, few moments back I searched through the net for some more interesting spelling differences in the English speaking nations. And phew!!! I was shocked to see a big list of words. I wonder a time would come when kids would have to deal with the flavours of English. What a stressful thing!!! Though there are indications for the commonly used spelling for a word, however I think applications like Microsoft Office/Open Office or for that matter any text editing tool should incorporate the words present in all the flavors of English (not only the American!!)
NB : The following link points out some of the commonly used words with different spellings.
Click Here
It’s already there. In OpenOffice, go to Tools -> Options -> Language Settings -> Language and set the language to English (UK). The proper spell check rules will be used.
-R