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At [[tardis:about|this wiki]], we've taken a community stand to use [[British]] [[English]] in our main article space, and we therefore have a [[tardis:spelling policy|strict policy]] to support that consensus. However, a lot of our editors are [[American]], which means that they won't think they're making mistakes at all. The help file, [[Help:How can I get my computer to spell check in British English?]], gives tips on how you can make it easier to spot the mistakes you probably don't even know you're making. | At [[tardis:about|this wiki]], we've taken a community stand to use [[British]] [[English]] in our main article space, and we therefore have a [[tardis:spelling policy|strict policy]] to support that consensus. However, a lot of our editors are [[American]], which means that they won't think they're making mistakes at all. The help file, [[Help:How can I get my computer to spell check in British English?|How can I get my computer to spell check in British English?]], gives tips on how you can make it easier to spot the mistakes you probably don't even know you're making. | ||
Most people understand the '''-our''' differences. The bot almost never finds anyone misspelling ''colour'', ''neighbour'', ''favour'' or ''humour''. | Most people understand the '''-our''' differences. The bot almost never finds anyone misspelling ''colour'', ''neighbour'', ''favour'' or ''humour''. | ||
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|style="background-color:#ff6666;padding:10px"|appall | |style="background-color:#ff6666;padding:10px"|appall | ||
|-style="border-bottom:1px solid black" | |-style="border-bottom:1px solid black" | ||
|style="background-color:#99ff33;padding:10px"|'''colonise''' | |style="background-color:#99ff33;padding:10px"|'''colonise'''<br>''colonises, colonised, colonising'' | ||
|style="background-color:#ff6666;padding:10px"|colonize | |style="background-color:#ff6666;padding:10px"|colonize | ||
|-style="border-bottom:1px solid black" | |-style="border-bottom:1px solid black" | ||
Revision as of 17:49, 21 September 2011
At this wiki, we've taken a community stand to use British English in our main article space, and we therefore have a strict policy to support that consensus. However, a lot of our editors are American, which means that they won't think they're making mistakes at all. The help file, How can I get my computer to spell check in British English?, gives tips on how you can make it easier to spot the mistakes you probably don't even know you're making.
Most people understand the -our differences. The bot almost never finds anyone misspelling colour, neighbour, favour or humour.
However, there are some words that are so commonly misspelt they deserve to be highlighted in the following spelling cheat card. These, then, are the words our spelling bot constantly corrects, in rough order of number of occurrences.
| Correct | Incorrect |
|---|---|
| materialise dematerialise, rematerialise, materialisation |
materialize |
| realise realisation, realising, realised |
realize |
| appal appals (but appalling and appalled are correct) |
appall |
| colonise colonises, colonised, colonising |
colonize |
| ageing de-ageing |
aging |
| synthesise synthesising |
synthesize |
| centre centring, centred, self-centred |
center |
| labelled labelling but the base label has only one l |
labeled |
| randomise therefore, randomiser |
randomize |
| criticise criticising, criticised |
criticized |
| mobilise mobilising, mobilised, immobilised, immobilising |
mobilize |
| humorous This one is "overcompensation" — humour, humoured, humouring are all correct, but the US and UK agree on how to spell humorous |
humourous |
| organise organisation, organising, organised |
organized |
| hypnotise hypnotised, hypnotising |
hypnotized |
| cancelled cancelling, cancellation |
canceled, canceling, cancelation (though, actually, cancellation is correct on both sides of the Atlantic) |
| chanelled chanelling |
chaneled |
| instalment This is a tricky one. Intstalment derives from the UK-only way of spelling install, instal. The British tend to use install as the base for most other forms of the word, just like Americans do. So installing, installed etc. are seen as correct by at least some Britons. But instalment is, for whatever reasons, firmly seen as the absolutely correct British spelling. |
installment |
