Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: spell checking - corrected

On 06/16/2012 06:47 PM, Larry Gusaas wrote:
> On 2012-06-16 3:38 PM Tom Davies wrote:
> > Hi:)
> > It's a bit weird because in English (UK) defence is right but defense 
> > is not.  Of course nothing can be 100% right all the time.
> > Regards from
> > Tom:) 
> Have a look wikipediea for the differences between UK and US English.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_spelling_differences 
>
>
> For example:
>
>    *-ce, -se*
>    For advice / advise and device / devise, American English and 
> British English both keep the
>    noun/verb distinction (where the pronunciation is -[s] for the noun 
> and -[z] for the verb).
>    For licence / license or practice / practise, British English also 
> keeps the noun/verb
>    distinction (the two words in each pair are homophones with -[s] 
> pronunciation, though). On
>    the other hand, American English uses license and practice for both 
> nouns and verbs (with
>    -[s] pronunciation in both cases too).
>
>    American English has kept the Anglo-French spelling for defense and 
> offense, which are
>    usually defence and offence in British English. Likewise, there are 
> the American pretense
>    and British pretence; but derivatives such as defensive, offensive, 
> and pretension are
>    always thus spelt in both systems.
>
>    Australian[28] and Canadian usage generally follows British.
So I took out the offence spelling when it was correct.

Maybe I should but it back in.


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