01.30.08
Getting ‘British English’ spelling on the Mac!
I lived with the Americanised version of English which it seems all mac come pre-configured with for a good while now. Principally because I’m so used to dealing with our friends in ‘the colonies’ 
that I almost don’t notice the use of ‘z’ instead of ’s’ ‘..or’ instead of ‘..our’ etc.. etc.. but today I was typing out an email, in what I’ll call for now “real English”, and the plethora of red wiggly lines got on my nerves.
I changed the language settings in the systems prefs but that had no effect at all, however after digging around I found that you can change the pronunciation (!!) in the dictionary settings so that, even though it’s using the American dictionary (I couldn’t find a British one anywhere to install) the red lines go away…. Hoorah!!
After a quick logout/in everything is sweet and I feel jolly English all over again.
I hope this helps others who’ve suffered as I have 
- J.
