For our friends in Britain, Word Check is now also available for British English. This brings to three the number of versions of Word Check which includes Australian English and American English.
I decided to extend the versions of Word Check to also cover British English, since quite a few visitors to the site are from the UK. Many dictionaries only show the way to spell a word, but often not the variations (inflections or plurals) of the word. Word Check British English for example confirms the following as correct spellings.
cancel, cancelled, canceller, canceller's, cancellers, cancelling, cancellation, cancellation's, cancellations, cancels.
You can bookmark Word Check, add Word Check as a search engine to to Internet Explorer or Firefox using the search engine links at the bottom of the Word Check page, or add Word Check manually to other browsers. Checking the correct spelling of a word can now be part of your browser.
The following are some tips which will assist in using Word Check.
1. Word Check only checks words. It does not check sentences and phrases.
2. Use the correct capitalisation. For example names and places start with a capital.
3. If you find a word that is in the dictionary that you feel should not be there then after checking, then word press Challenge! All words challenged will be reviewed.
4. If you find a word is not in the dictionary and feel it should be, then after checking for the word press Suggest! All words suggested will be reviewed.
5. Feel free to make a donation. The dictionary behind Word Check is open source and donations will be used to enhance the dictionary with the assistance of professional editors skilled in the British English language. Updated versions of the British dictionary will be made available periodically.
6. Add Word Check British English to your browser as a search engine. For Internet Explorer and Firefox the links at the bottom of Word Check enable you to quickly add Word Check as a search engine. Then any time you want to check a word, type or copy the word into the search field at the top right of the browser and select Word Check as the search engine using the drop down box. For other browsers you can manually add Word Check as search engine which is also quite easy to do.
7. For Australians who are not quite certain if they are about to use the British spelling of a word or the preferred Australian spelling, checking both Word Check British English and Word Check Australian English should help answer the question.
Additional tips will be added to this post as we find things which may assist you.
Please enjoy.
- Kelvin Eldridge
Now all we need is a spell check that gives us the BEST spelling – Brit, American, Australian, or whatever – the one that best follows English spelling rules.
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