Aibu to find the irritating over use of American spellcheckers annoying?

[BecauseImperfect]

I'm noticing it more and more. Professionally and on forums such as here.

It's not a grammar or spelling police thing. We all make mistakes, especially tapping away on a forum in a rush, kids around, etc.

But it's all these people relying on spell check, pretending they know how to spell these big words. BUT all their correspondence is littered with z's where there should be 's.

I know irrational.

How patronizing.

I agree that American spelling is not correct.

patronise
realise
colonise
recognise

etc

If I am on the iPad it automatically changes all my -ises to -izes and -ours to -ors, whether I like it or not. Haven't found a way to switch it off yet! iPhone does it too, I believe. Drives me mad but it's far too fiddly and time consuming to change every time so I don't usually bother.

But I am American... So when I post with US spelling, sorry, spellingS, you can be less annoyed because I do know how to spell and was taught in the US however, I do make an effort to use British spelling whenever I remember, if that helps.

Gastro - my iPhone and iPad both autocorrect to british spelling. it's very irritating when writing emails to friends and family in the US who would call me on the British 'ise' and such.

Ahh panda noooooo. Just no! I must go out now before I explode in a fit of irrational rage.

Have a nice day :)

There was a thread about this not long ago - apparently if you look up words like 'realise' you will see that the current dictionaries now show them being spelt with a 'z' not an 's'.

Doesn't the spellcheck depend on your computer's settings, not the website's?

I use American spellings ...I live in the US.

This forum is not just used by Brits.

anyway... its not like the words are spelled wrong!

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Set your iPad language to British English

It's worse than just annoying. There were a few positions going in my office and the application was on-line.

I went for one position and failed (just to get the job) another position had a spectacularly high number of people apply. When reviewing my application with me one of the panel pointed out a couple of americanisms. I explained that I had written my application in word and spell checked it correctly but when I put it into theory application system and re checked it auto corrected to the American versionso I assumed this is what they wanted. Said panel member went pale and said that they had used these misspellings to sift some of the applicants for the other job!

Bizarrely - because it sounds so wrong - the -ize spelling is British. Inspector Morse said so in an old episode on itv3 the other day so I checked in the OED. I never use it though.

IHeartmyPanda - .

BecauseImperfect - It's irritating, but even if people know how to set the default language in Word to UK English, all those "zed" words are still recognised as correctly spelled, because that's what UK English was like until fairly recently (and still is, I think, by Oxford University Press). I'm an old gimmer and I can remember when we were allowed to change to the "modern" version of UK English, using "s" instead of "z" (as well as a whole load of other changes). Sighs of relief abounded, not least because hitting the "z" key on a manual keyboard with the left little finger was a pain.

Fast forward a few decades, and I had a job-share typing up audio dictation in a medical setting. I already knew some medical terminology, but my colleague didn't. The dictionary supplied in the office was American, so obviously that's what she used. That didn't really matter, because most of the medical/nursing staff in the hospital, and the GPs who got copies, would understand such words as "edema", "fecal", etc. But she never went so far as to type the word that irritates me the most - it's appendicectomy in the UK, all those who use "appendectomy" have probably been watching too many US soaps.

Seriously? So these spellings are a new thing and haven't always been in place?! And interviewers are sifting out applications using a perfectly valid and correct form of spelling?

I seem to remember an episode of Morse where the suspect was educated at Harrow School. Morse said he could tell that he'd been well educated because he'd spelled a word I have now forgotten with -ize. He said that spelling it with -ise was the sign of an illiterate.

notnowImreading: Clearly we saw the same episode :)

There was a thread about this not long ago - apparently if you look up words like 'realise' you will see that the current dictionaries now show them being spelt with a 'z' not an 's'.

I didn't believe this, thought it had to be only wannabe, unheard of, online dictionaries of disreputable origin. So I put it to the test. The Oxford English Dictionary does it.

It is very irritating, however, you should set up your spell checker correctly, because you can set it to British English.
I should add that people need to understand how spelling checkers actually work, because they do not look for "correct" or "incorrect" spellings, but rather allowable strings of characters.

Kladdkaka - that was exactly what I did! Awful, isn't it?!