Remove the damn Z

[tortex]

Hello.

I'm not new to Mac, but I've never been able to get this to work. I'm English, in England. I like my S's, not Z's. No matter what I do, my Mac just uses a Z instead of the correct S. How can I change this? In International my keyboard etc are all set to English. Do I need to do something else? I'm running a legit version of Leopard that came with my iMac, which I bought in England.

T.

 

[sammich]

Took me a while to get what you mean Dunno why, I'm in Australia so I share your sentiment.

Is your problem with the 'z's when the built-in spell checker underlines words like 'organise'? In International, under Languages, try adding 'British English' in the list when you click 'Edit List'. Then dragging making sure British is at the top?

Re-install Mac OS X and choose United Kingdom as your country.

Honestly, how can anyone even suggest this?

 

[Cousin Dirk]

If you're talking about the spellcheck that works within OS X, I don't think there's much you can do about it... I just ignore it, and spell things correctly.

 

[agl82]

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[Schtumple]

Re-install Mac OS X and choose United Kingdom as your country.

Makes no difference, it still lists z instead of s...

 

[Cabbit]

Makes no difference, it still lists z instead of s...

Did you remember to log in and out as it tells you too.

 

[Biolizard]

Hopefully this might fix your issue. In the International menu in System Preferences, in Edit List there's 'British English'. It's not on (check box) by default, English is (since there's no one 'English', that should be American English really. Damn you Apple) and it's deceiving, even when you select your country as United Kingdom.

My Languages order thus goes British English, then English underneath.

 

[Jon-Luke]

Can you please give examples of the words that you are having problems with - I think I don't have the same problems and then I could give you my settings...

 

[Schtumple]

Did you remember to log in and out as it tells you too.

Would I have to log in and out every time I wanted English spelling...?

 

[sammich]

Would I have to log in and out every time I wanted English spelling...?

Since the changes only take effect after you relaunch the program, the tooltip tells you that in order to see the result in Finder, you need to logout/in, which relaunches Finder.

 

[Schtumple]

Since the changes only take effect after you relaunch the program, the tooltip tells you that in order to see the result in Finder, you need to logout/in, which relaunches Finder.

aluminium IS THE CORRECT SPELLING!

I'm so happy, although my mate just said he found it likes to revert back to american English on it's own accord, so I've disabled all other languages aside from British English

 

[tortex]

Ah Ha! British English, rock and roll. Now, where's my Tea?

 

[Schtumple]

Ah Ha! British English, rock and roll. Now, where's my Tea?

Don't forget the crumpets, high society indeed!

I feel as though this should be my desktop: