{"id":263,"date":"2018-08-22T23:59:51","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T03:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/expectedly.org\/inclusivetech\/?p=263"},"modified":"2018-08-22T23:59:51","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T03:59:51","slug":"uk-english-spellchecking-issues-in-the-macos-mojave-beta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/expectedly.org\/inclusivetech\/uk-english-spellchecking-issues-in-the-macos-mojave-beta\/","title":{"rendered":"UK English spellchecking issues in the MacOS Mojave beta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The quality of the British English spellchecker seems to have deteriorated in the MacOS Mojave beta. Certain American spellings, especially the notorious duo of\u00a0<em>color<\/em> and <em>center<\/em>, aren\u2019t being underlined as errors. In previous MacOS releases, they were. I\u2019ve noticed a similar problem in iOS 11, though it\u2019s limited only to\u00a0<em>center<\/em>. This has been a problem for a while &#8211;\u00a0<em>canceled\u00a0<\/em>has never been marked as an error, for example &#8211; but at the very least the spellchecker was able to recognise that archetypical American spellings should be underlined.<\/p>\n<p>If you find the inconsistency as annoying as I do, you\u2019ll want to download an alternative dictionary instead.\u00a0This\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apple.stackexchange.com\/questions\/101546\/configuring-a-mac-to-use-oxford-spelling\">StackExchange thread<\/a>\u00a0links to LibreOffice\u2019s British English dictionary and provides instructions for installing it. While the LibreOffice dictionary is somewhat smaller than the pre-installed Mac dictionary, it is more accurate at recognising US spellings and marking them as errors. Another perk of the LibreOffice dictionary is that it allows spellings like\u00a0<em>realize\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>organize\u00a0<\/em>through. While -ize endings are sometimes associated with North American spelling standards, they\u2019re actually the preferred variant of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oxford_spelling\">Oxford University Press<\/a>, and Oxford dictionaries will always list the -ize spelling first. The default Apple dictionary underlines all spellings that end in -ize.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I filed a bug report with Apple, since I think they may have made some mistakes with the dictionary file. As far as I can tell, Apple\u2019s English dictionaries are based on a US English master file, and the British, Australian, Canadian and other localised dictionaries exclude the American spellings and add Commonwealth ones like\u00a0<em>colour\u00a0<\/em>and <em>fibre<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you use one of the other non-US English dictionaries on the Mojave beta (or even High Sierra and earlier MacOS versions) and see obvious American spellings being let through without underlining, please let me know so I can update this entry. Tell Apple, too, so that they know to look for the issue in forthcoming releases.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The quality of the British English spellchecker seems to have deteriorated in the MacOS Mojave beta. Certain American spellings, especially the notorious duo of\u00a0color and center, aren\u2019t being underlined as errors. In previous MacOS releases, they were. I\u2019ve noticed a similar problem in iOS 11, though it\u2019s limited only to\u00a0center. This has been a problem&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/expectedly.org\/inclusivetech\/uk-english-spellchecking-issues-in-the-macos-mojave-beta\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UK English spellchecking issues in the MacOS Mojave beta<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/expectedly.org\/inclusivetech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/expectedly.org\/inclusivetech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/expectedly.org\/inclusivetech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expectedly.org\/inclusivetech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expectedly.org\/inclusivetech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/expectedly.org\/inclusivetech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264,"href":"https:\/\/expectedly.org\/inclusivetech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/expectedly.org\/inclusivetech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expectedly.org\/inclusivetech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/expectedly.org\/inclusivetech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}