{"id":751,"date":"2008-03-19T05:04:13","date_gmt":"2008-03-19T10:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/03\/19\/on-the-importance-of-british-english"},"modified":"2008-03-19T06:14:55","modified_gmt":"2008-03-19T11:14:55","slug":"on-the-importance-of-british-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/03\/19\/on-the-importance-of-british-english","title":{"rendered":"On the importance of British English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like to spell with British English. Its probably because of my upbringing doing the O Level Examinations, at my high school.<\/p>\n<p>For the last few days that Mac was annoying me, so I found out how to have British English available for all my applications. <strong>System Preferences -&gt; International -&gt; Input Menu<\/strong>. Select British. It will ask you to look for the Input Menu, I just selected the British flag and got rid of the input menu, to reduce clutter from the menu bar.<\/p>\n<p>Firefox however, still decided to misbehave. It was then I realised that we had to download additional dictionaries for Firefox. That was easily done, thanks to the plugin architecture &#8211; visit <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/browse\/type:3\">Add-ons: Dictionaries<\/a>. I wonder why it doesn&#8217;t use the system dictionary (I noticed that even in Linux, I had the dictionary add-on).<\/p>\n<p>Now, I&#8217;m happily typing and not noticing <em>typos<\/em> of the spelling kind.<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/british%20english\" class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\">british english<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/language\" class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\">language<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/spelling\" class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\">spelling<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/firefox\" class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\">firefox<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/macosx\" class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\">macosx<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20On%20the%20importance%20of%20British%20English&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F03%2F19%2Fon-the-importance-of-british-english&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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