{"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":"https:\/\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like to spell with British English. Its probably because of my upbringing doing the O Level Examinations, at my high school. For the last few days that Mac was annoying me, so I found out how to have British English available for all my applications. System Preferences -&gt; International -&gt; Input Menu. Select British. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-c7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}