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> Write a word ending in "-ise" and it will suggest changing it to "-ize" [...] Sounds like it's working fine to me. Joking aside, this is a great article wit

> Write a word ending in "-ise" and it will suggest changing it to "-ize" [...] Sounds like it's working fine to me. Joking aside, this is a great article with many strong points, but disabling or mitigating spellcheck is always a possibility. I usually disable it since many of the grammar suggestions Word provides are questionable. In a workplace setting when consistency is key, it seems like grammar and spellcheck are essential utilities.

gus_massa 3y ago
WinEdt has like 5 dictionaries for Genghis. The "normal" one. One with -ise, one with -ize, one with -ice. One with color, one with colour. And perhaps others that I don't remember. The idea is that you can combine them to make en-us, en-uk or any of the other variants you prefer.
csydas 3y ago
Spellchecks are fine usually but I have not yet found one I like when it comes to auto-correcting, as I cannot seem to get the rhythm when I'm trying to type and seeing my words and writing change without my interaction is very distracting. I also don't really like the way of "teaching" new words to most auto-corrects (macOS gets it right I think, just right-click the word the OS doesn't recognise and select "Learn"), but I remember it being far more annoying on other OSes. Similarly my frustration with Office is that depending on how you access it (web version, office 365, within Teams, etc), it's been my experience that the configuration/preferences are not carried over so it's just very annoying to know that despite Office365 being so connected, depending on how I use Office365 my preferences aren't carried over. I would vastly prefer if spellchecks and auto-corrects were more restrained in what they tried to fix. A lot of the grammar changes are inane typically or treating stylistic choices as grammar mistakes. Probably Office just isn't for me but I think it changes the writing enough in many cases that the meaning is lost.
lozenge 3y ago
I would rather receive an email with a letter missing than have it autocorrected/hastily corrected before sending to a word that it shouldn't be.
pm215 3y ago
I think the point the article is trying to make there is about the power of defaults. Sure, you can disable the grammar and spellcheck (I do that too), or you can configure it to specifically UK English and otherwise adjust it, but most users will not, and so on aggregate the choice of default setting will exert some pressure on the user base.
- notahacker 3y ago
  Tbh I find most UK spellcheck's determination to replace "-ize" (a valid spelling in British English which the Oxford English Dictionary actually prefers for most words) with "-ise" even more annoying...
  - bloak 3y ago
    That one should be a configuration option. Most British publishers (I think) use -ise, but some use -ize, and no publisher would be happy with a paragraph in which both spellings are used (unless they are in quotations in an academic text).
- fostware 3y ago
  For a good few years, Word's English (Australian) dictionary, was practically a renamed EN_US dictionary. Because if it, I fear the number of people from that era had their spelling localization errors metastasize and crystalize. (Yes, Chrome is not far behind)
mnw21cam 3y ago
If consistency is what you're after, then Word doesn't provide it. Even if you set the language to en-UK, it has a habit of conveniently forgetting every now and again and trying to change all your words back to US versions. This is why Word is changing language - its repeated gaslighting is at abusive level, and many people are too worn down by it to maintain their standards.

gus_massa 3y ago

WinEdt has like 5 dictionaries for Genghis. The "normal" one. One with -ise, one with -ize, one with -ice. One with color, one with colour. And perhaps others that I don't remember. The idea is that you can combine them to make en-us, en-uk or any of the other variants you prefer.

csydas 3y ago

Spellchecks are fine usually but I have not yet found one I like when it comes to auto-correcting, as I cannot seem to get the rhythm when I'm trying to type and seeing my words and writing change without my interaction is very distracting. I also don't really like the way of "teaching" new words to most auto-corrects (macOS gets it right I think, just right-click the word the OS doesn't recognise and select "Learn"), but I remember it being far more annoying on other OSes. Similarly my frustration with Office is that depending on how you access it (web version, office 365, within Teams, etc), it's been my experience that the configuration/preferences are not carried over so it's just very annoying to know that despite Office365 being so connected, depending on how I use Office365 my preferences aren't carried over. I would vastly prefer if spellchecks and auto-corrects were more restrained in what they tried to fix. A lot of the grammar changes are inane typically or treating stylistic choices as grammar mistakes. Probably Office just isn't for me but I think it changes the writing enough in many cases that the meaning is lost.

lozenge 3y ago

I would rather receive an email with a letter missing than have it autocorrected/hastily corrected before sending to a word that it shouldn't be.

pm215 3y ago

I think the point the article is trying to make there is about the power of defaults. Sure, you can disable the grammar and spellcheck (I do that too), or you can configure it to specifically UK English and otherwise adjust it, but most users will not, and so on aggregate the choice of default setting will exert some pressure on the user base.

notahacker 3y ago
Tbh I find most UK spellcheck's determination to replace "-ize" (a valid spelling in British English which the Oxford English Dictionary actually prefers for most words) with "-ise" even more annoying...
- bloak 3y ago
  That one should be a configuration option. Most British publishers (I think) use -ise, but some use -ize, and no publisher would be happy with a paragraph in which both spellings are used (unless they are in quotations in an academic text).
fostware 3y ago
For a good few years, Word's English (Australian) dictionary, was practically a renamed EN_US dictionary. Because if it, I fear the number of people from that era had their spelling localization errors metastasize and crystalize. (Yes, Chrome is not far behind)

mnw21cam 3y ago

If consistency is what you're after, then Word doesn't provide it. Even if you set the language to en-UK, it has a habit of conveniently forgetting every now and again and trying to change all your words back to US versions. This is why Word is changing language - its repeated gaslighting is at abusive level, and many people are too worn down by it to maintain their standards.