Submitted by Sheila on May 25, 2018, at 16:35
Hi, Anvita,
Thank you for your comment. Spellcheckers that don’t recognize Canadian spelling can certainly be aggravating! Thank goodness we can set our language preference in Word! I always set it to “English (Canada)” so that I’m not corrected when I type words like “honour” or “practise.” I was intrigued by the long list of possibilities for English in Word, and decided one day to count them. There is a separate setting for 18 different varieties of English, including not only Canadian, British and American, but also Australian, Irish, Indian, Jamaican and South African, to name just a few! That should certainly help if we ever find ourselves writing for audiences even farther afield than the U.S.!
Thank you for your comment. Spellcheckers that don’t recognize Canadian spelling can certainly be aggravating! Thank goodness we can set our language preference in Word! I always set it to “English (Canada)” so that I’m not corrected when I type words like “honour” or “practise.” I was intrigued by the long list of possibilities for English in Word, and decided one day to count them. There is a separate setting for 18 different varieties of English, including not only Canadian, British and American, but also Australian, Irish, Indian, Jamaican and South African, to name just a few! That should certainly help if we ever find ourselves writing for audiences even farther afield than the U.S.!