hagar — Wed, 06 Nov 2002 05:41:07 +0000

so you need a phoenetic british dictionary... hmmm im about to leave work, ill see what I can dig up tommorrow for ya.

cheers
hags

Busy — Wed, 06 Nov 2002 05:36:25 +0000

problem for me is my spelling and grammer are bad [note school is learn, not get dates] so the Cambridge doesnt help out much, a bit like the dictionary, if you don't know how to spell it your doomed

hagar — Wed, 06 Nov 2002 00:03:36 +0000

oh nearly forgot, this is what I use as my grammar/punctuation guide
http://community-2.webtv.net/solis-boo/Grammar1/

I'm not aware of any differences between US/British grammar if any, but it might offer some help. Its not so much a checker, as a quick guide as to how to construct sentences, supplying the grammatical rules etc, so we can write good thing heheh......
I wish it had a Yoda Mode...

The cambridge dictionary should supply all alternative(US) spellings for words as well as British, its just up to the author to select and use the one he or she wishes.

Busy — Tue, 05 Nov 2002 23:55:01 +0000

Thanks hagar, that site is pretty good, not 100% thou, still lists some American words that aren't actual English words, like color humor and tire has the wrong meaning, tire is to wear out, not a rubber wheel (does show that but intends the wheel method) ... surprized isn't in there so that's good, will have to try think of some more words to try it out but is best so far.

I didn't even think about changing the language - doh, in Outlook is only British English or USA English, but Word actually has 9 options of English, including Australian, Canadian, United Kingdom and New Zealand - wooohooo

Always the simple things lol, Thanks again

hagar — Tue, 05 Nov 2002 23:32:32 +0000

have u tried changing the language settings in your pc to English(British) or English(Australian)instead of English(US) ? then use word to check spelling.

alternatively try this
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/
US/Internation/UK versions and idioms etc... it will not just give you color, but colour as well, it will also search phoenetics.

cheers
hags

Busy — Tue, 05 Nov 2002 23:09:54 +0000

General and website

Word is US based, so is Outlook, they don't do proper english

Like Abhishek said, website, program ... anything will do

even Dictionary.com is biasd, do a search for colour and one of the results is colour

\Col"our\, n. See Color.

The Webmistress — Tue, 05 Nov 2002 08:53:47 +0000

If it's just to generally check spelling then why not just cut and paste into word and use its spelling and grammer checkers??

Abhishek Reddy — Tue, 05 Nov 2002 08:27:59 +0000

I'm guessing general use.

I'd be interested in any results you guys have, too. I don't mind if it's a website, program, plugin or whatever.

The Webmistress — Tue, 05 Nov 2002 08:18:10 +0000

What do you want it for? General use, on a website, part of a program???