Spelling auto-correct to American English?

Manxman_in_exile

I recently bought a new laptop and have it set up as a UK keyboard and language as UK english.  

When posting anything here (and on some other forums) I'm constantly being prompted to change spellings to American english.  (eg licence to license; honour to honor; realise to realize etc).  Is that a peculiarity of this forum and website, or is there something on my laptop that I still need to change?  It's really annoying!

(PS - I'm new to Windows 10, and when I was setting it up I selected UK english for both language and keyboard.  I also seem to recall being asked during setup if I needed assistance with spelling etc and I'm sure I would have selected "no".  Might I have misunderstood something there?  I never had any prompts to change to American spellings when using Windows 7.)

[Deleted User]

This could be down to either the spell check settings of your browser / or the locale setting for you PC.

1. Open Windows settings and type "Language" and the make sure UK is selected for all the 6 options listed below. If not, click on them and change to UK. When you have done, restart the PC and see if it now works ok.


2. Depending on your browsers that you are using, go into the settings for it and change spell check language to UK - let us know which browser you are using so we can help if the above doesn't work. 

neilmcl

Check the language settings in your browser. Chrome, for example, has a spell check setting.

Manxman_in_exile

Colour, honour, licence, recognise.

Thanks.  Looks like it was spelling settings in Edge.  VERY annoying.

Thank you.

J_B

But, full marks for ridding the world of americanisations - if only in a small way!!!

onomatopoeia99

Manxman_in_exile said:

eg licence to license

Both are valid in British English, but they are not interchangeable.

I have a driving licence
The DVLA license you to drive.

Username03725

onomatopoeia99 said:

Manxman_in_exile said:

eg licence to license

Both are valid in British English, but they are not interchangeable.

I have a driving licence
The DVLA license you to drive.

This needs to be in the Motoring thread, where seemingly only one person in every dozen is aware of the difference.

Manxman_in_exile

Username03725 said:

onomatopoeia99 said:

Manxman_in_exile said:

eg licence to license

Both are valid in British English, but they are not interchangeable.

I have a driving licence
The DVLA license you to drive.

This needs to be in the Motoring thread, where seemingly only one person in every dozen is aware of the difference.

I think it's much fewer than one in a dozen!

Or maybe like me they don't know they have to change the language setting in their browser too... 

Manxman_in_exile

onomatopoeia99 said:

Manxman_in_exile said:

eg licence to license

Both are valid in British English, but they are not interchangeable.

I have a driving licence
The DVLA license you to drive.

Thank you.  I know...    

coffeehound

Practise / practice is the one I always get wrong.  Still always turn off spelling checkers though; they are insufferable!

Manxman_in_exile

The one I don't understand, but you often see on these boards, is people asking "Can someone give me some advise please...?"

Even Americans don't say that - or do they?