Tardis:Spelling cheat card: Difference between revisions

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''.

However, there are some words that are so commonly misspelt they deserve to be highlighted in the following '''{{lc:{{PAGENAME}}}}'''. These, then, are the words our spelling bot ''constantly'' corrects, in rough order of number of occurrences.  

|style="background-color:#99ff33; padding:10px;"|'''materialise'''<br>''dematerialise, rematerialise, materialisation''

|style="background-color:#99ff33;padding:10px"|'''realise'''<br>''realisation, realising, realised

|style="background-color:#99ff33;padding:10px"|'''recognise'''<br>''recognises, recognised''

|style="background-color:#99ff33;padding:10px"|'''colonise'''<br>''colonises, colonised, colonising''

|style="background-color:#99ff33;padding:10px"|'''traveller'''<br> This is a bit controversial, because ''traveler'' is an acceptable alternate British spelling.  However, ''traveller'' is by far the dominant British spelling, so the bot ''will'' correct for it.

|style="background-color:#99ff33;padding:10px"|'''ageing'''<br>''de-ageing''

|style="background-color:#99ff33;padding:10px"|'''synthesise'''<br>''synthesising''

|style="background-color:#99ff33;padding:10px"|'''centre'''<br>''centring, centred, self-centred''

|style="background-color:#99ff33;padding:10px"|'''labelled'''<br>''labelling'' but the base ''label'' has only one ''l''  

|style="background-color:#99ff33;padding:10px"|'''randomise'''<br>therefore, ''randomiser''

|style="background-color:#99ff33;padding:10px"|'''criticise'''<br>''criticising, criticised''

|style="background-color:#99ff33;padding:10px"|'''appal'''<br> ''appals'' (but ''appalling'' and ''appalled'' are correct)

|style="background-color:#99ff33;padding:10px"|'''mobilise'''<br>''mobilising, mobilised, immobilised, immobilising''

|style="background-color:#99ff33;padding:10px"|'''humorous'''<br>This one is "overcompensation" — ''humour'', ''humoured'', ''humouring'' are all correct, but the US and UK agree on how to spell ''humorous''  

|style="background-color:#99ff33;padding:10px"|'''organise'''<br>''organisation, organising, organised''

|style="background-color:#99ff33;padding:10px"|'''hypnotise'''<br>''hypnotised, hypnotising''

|style="background-color:#99ff33;padding:10px"|'''cancelled'''<br>''cancelling, cancellation''

|style="background-color:#99ff33;padding:10px"|'''chanelled'''<br>''chanelling''

|style="background-color:#99ff33;padding:10px"|'''instalment'''<br>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.   

|style="background-color:#99ff33;padding:10px"|'''fulfil'''<br> ''fulfils'' (but ''fulfilling'' and ''fulfilled'' are correct)

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