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Joshua B
February 18, 2024
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Fred Rivett
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It would be great to have UK English spelling as an option. I'm sure ii would be appreciated by your UK, Australian and New Zealand subscribers.
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Iggy S
May 3, 2025
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Fred Rivett
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I would like to be able to switch between American and UK English
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Rijn V
January 23, 2023
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Rob M
Big one for me!
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November 24, 2024
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Fred Rivett
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As someone who writes in British-English, I often get notification that my spelling is incorrect, but it's not because the grammar checker is focused on US-English. There tends to be a lot of rejections when the suggestion is to update the spelling to US-English.
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Ahmed K
September 11, 2024
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Jason B
With many thanks to the Lex team here's a British English check I use all the time. Add it to the end of the check order so that nothing else checks in US English after;
https://lex.page/p/british-english-7a73Sy
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September 11, 2024
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Fred Rivett
Thanks for jumping in here Jason! You're totally right that's our best fix currently until we devote more time to solving this, but unfortunately it's actually harder for LLM's to parse dialect differences than language differences as the differences are so minor.
As a fellow Brit we will definitely do this, just got some big things in the pipeline so haven't prioritised it yet! Ahmed K
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September 11, 2024
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Ahmed K
Thank you for the insights Fred. I can appreciate that it's not a straightforward task to do.
And thanks to Jason for sharing your method.
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September 11, 2024
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Fred Rivett
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It would be great to be able tp specify British Englsih as the language, for the AI generated text to come back as, rather than Amercian English.
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Pete C
July 27, 2024
July 29, 2024
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Fred Rivett
Agree Pete! As a fellow Brit we want this, it's just a bit more complex to implement than actual languages, so we haven't gotten around to giving it the time it needs yet. Will update when we have more to share!
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July 29, 2024
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Fred Rivett
Hey folks! As a fellow Brit I started looking into this.
The bad news is it's a little more complex than I hoped, it's simpler for AI to understand when text is in an entirely different language than in localised language varities.
The good news is we've created a custom prompt that is working pretty well for us so far. Here's the prompt:
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Your job is to convert American English orthographic variants to their British English counterparts. If a word is an American English orthographic variant and would be grammatically incorrect in the UK then rewrite to the modern British English equivalent, leave everything else as is. DO NOT REWRITE DATES, LEAVE THEM AS IS.
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If you're a Lex Pro subscriber then you can create a custom Check in the Prompt Builder panel on the right, and then use that in the Checks panel to correct American English to British English. Obviously feel free to tweak the prompt yourself too and let us know if you've found one that works even better!
I've attached a quick gif showing this in action below:
I'm not marking this ticket as complete as we still want to make British English a first class language option, but in the meantime hopefully this helps some of you out.
Yours sincerely,
Fellow Brit Fred.
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July 19, 2024
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Fred Rivett
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How can I make sure that what I write is corrected in British English?
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Reia A
July 14, 2024
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Spelling Checkers in Different Regions
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Sa-aadat Parker
The current spelling checker is for language in American English. A British English language checker would be highly appreciated.
June 26, 2024
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