Comments on: Set Language Priority in Mac OS X Lion Auto Correct to Prevent Inaccurate Corrections Like “Colour” to “Color”

By: Rai

Rai — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 08:33:36 +0000

I changed all the language settings to ‘British English’ as you suggested above – still corrects in american english! :@

By: Crispin

Crispin — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 06:24:04 +0000

I tried changing the dictionary and the spelling as described above, but still my iMac wants to change everything to American English. Can someone please advise?

By: Etymologist

Etymologist — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 20:26:26 +0000

Colo(u)r derives ultimately from Latin color, so color is right all along and the u in colour is vestigial. Same for honor, favor, labor, ardor, rigor, etc. ad infinitum.

By: Matzky

Matzky — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 12:05:34 +0000

Hear hear!

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Sun, 17 Jun 2012 01:00:21 +0000

[...] you use auto-correct it’s a good idea to set Language Priority for the new location too. stLight.options({ [...]

By: Fred

Fred — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 22:47:53 +0000

The setup panel “drag the languages into the order you prefer…” does not have any languages listed. What should I do?

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 16:03:35 +0000

Thanks for this! It saved my sanity.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 12:21:48 +0000

So by this logic, any law created since the 18th century are invalid?

By: Justin

Justin — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 22:35:05 +0000

Having problems with pages too.

Trying to set this up so that at uni I won’t get docked marks for using american english but pages is still defaulting to american despite me doing the changes outlined above in system preferences.

By: Chris Thorpe

Chris Thorpe — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 20:56:50 +0000

Hmm this does not sam to work in pages unfortunately.

By: Stefan

Stefan — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 16:30:34 +0000

My wife has to do a lot of transcribing for a US website to a British one and since Snow Leopard arrived it seems that US spellings like color, labor, practiced have been included in the British dictionary. So while it does not flag British words it also misses US ones.
This is next to useless as she reports on a persecution in China where 100′s of thousands of Falun Gong practitioners languish in labour camps. As you can imagine the word labour and practised, among others, come up very frequently. Therefore she has not been able to upgrade from Leopard yet!
I would have thought this would be fixed by now, but it seems that, along with the slide toward txt spk, British is dissolving. Maybe in the futur spell chck will diss altogethr as anythng wll go. However for now, Firefox does not suffer this idiosyncrasy and so I want to put Firefox’s spell check dictionary into the Mac library. Any ideas how to do this as there seems to be several sources? Thanks very much.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:25:32 +0000

OMG THANK YOU!!!! I was thinking this was a “BUG” in Lion, because I removed all the other languages from a list on the LANGUAGES tab — but I TOTALLY missed THE spelling list on the TEXT tab!

Apple phails in terms of intuitiveness here…!

By: Ray

Ray — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:08:23 +0000

Here’s an interesting problem: I have to work in two languages (English & French) and while there is no hassle with TextEdit and Mail, Pages (08) is very peculiar. Even if I set Language & Text prefs. to “français”, when I switch on the spellchecker (very quick & useful for putting in accents) the language always reverts back to English.

The only remedy I have found so far is to copy & paste into a TextEdit document, but this is a pain.

Any ideas gratefully received.

By: Jonny

Jonny — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 23:36:02 +0000

Same! I have just spent an AGE wondering what the hell was wrong with my websites because of this!

It seems to auto-correct ‘color’ to ‘colour’ (something that would normally be welcome) whether I actually go near the word or not. I’ve just been editing various colour values, without even clicking into the word ‘color’ and it has been “correcting” them regardless. 2 hours wasted!

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:22:45 +0000

what’s really annoying is that I’m English, but also a web developer so it keeps changing my css! Would be useful if it could be turned off on a per app basis!