Could we have a version of the UK English Dictionary that gives the correct
preferred English spelling of words such as "realize", "finalize" etc. I
know I'm an old pedant, but I find it most annoying that the dictionary gives
the alternative secondary spelling of -ise as the only option. It seems to
think that -ize is an American spelling. I commend consulting the Concise
Oxford Dictionary to see that this interpretation is incorrect.
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Are you sure you have the UK dictionary enabled? When you click in the word
"realize" and go to Tools | Language | Set Language, which "flavor" of
English is selected? See
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/LangFmt.htm

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"AndyE" wrote in message
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Could we have a version of the UK English Dictionary that gives the
correct
preferred English spelling of words such as "realize", "finalize" etc. I
know I'm an old pedant, but I find it most annoying that the dictionary
gives
the alternative secondary spelling of -ise as the only option. It seems
to
think that -ize is an American spelling. I commend consulting the Concise
Oxford Dictionary to see that this interpretation is incorrect.
--
AndyE

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I use English UK as default. Check as you type accepts both -ize and -ise,
e.g. in finalize (no wavy line under either of them). If I deliberately
misspell, as feinailze and do a spell check, it offers both finalize and
finalise as options. I think that is correct as both are acceptable. When I
was growing up -ise was the preferred spelling in UK English; it is only
during the past few decades that the American spelling has come to dominate.
Word 2002 SP3 (part of Office Pro XP)

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Are you sure you have the UK dictionary enabled? When you click in the word
"realize" and go to Tools | Language | Set Language, which "flavor" of
English is selected? See
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/LangFmt.htm

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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"AndyE" wrote in message
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Could we have a version of the UK English Dictionary that gives the
correct
preferred English spelling of words such as "realize", "finalize" etc. I
know I'm an old pedant, but I find it most annoying that the dictionary
gives
the alternative secondary spelling of -ise as the only option. It seems
to
think that -ize is an American spelling. I commend consulting the Concise
Oxford Dictionary to see that this interpretation is incorrect.
--
AndyE

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You can force Word to consider words misspelled (see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/Ex...ordFromDic.htm), but you'd have to
do it individually for every -ize word.

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"JRosenfeld" wrote in message
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I use English UK as default. Check as you type accepts both -ize and -ise,
e.g. in finalize (no wavy line under either of them). If I deliberately
misspell, as feinailze and do a spell check, it offers both finalize and
finalise as options. I think that is correct as both are acceptable. When
I
was growing up -ise was the preferred spelling in UK English; it is only
during the past few decades that the American spelling has come to
dominate.
Word 2002 SP3 (part of Office Pro XP)

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Are you sure you have the UK dictionary enabled? When you click in the
word
"realize" and go to Tools | Language | Set Language, which "flavor" of
English is selected? See
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister/LangFmt.htm

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"AndyE" wrote in message
...
Could we have a version of the UK English Dictionary that gives the
correct
preferred English spelling of words such as "realize", "finalize" etc.
I
know I'm an old pedant, but I find it most annoying that the
dictionary
gives
the alternative secondary spelling of -ise as the only option. It
seems
to
think that -ize is an American spelling. I commend consulting the
Concise
Oxford Dictionary to see that this interpretation is incorrect.
--
AndyE

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