From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Looking for a British English spell checker Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:03:11 +0100 Message-ID: <45E2A24F.8020308@warum-ada.de> References: <1172476603.309981.41260@a75g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1172480620 23735 80.91.229.12 (26 Feb 2007 09:03:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:03:40 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 26 10:03:34 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HLbld-0002YR-1l for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:03:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HLblc-0008Oa-N0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 04:03:32 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HLblM-0008Nr-U7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 04:03:16 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HLblK-0008Nf-T7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 04:03:16 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HLblK-0008Nc-N8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 04:03:14 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp3.netcologne.de ([194.8.194.66]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1HLblK-00021a-5J for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 04:03:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.168.0.4] (xdsl-87-78-34-236.netcologne.de [87.78.34.236]) by smtp3.netcologne.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F703674A2 for ; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:03:12 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060516) In-Reply-To: <1172476603.309981.41260@a75g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:41471 Archived-At: Davin Pearson wrote: > Could someone give me a URL of a spell checker that uses British > English rather than American English. > > At the moment my version of Gnu Aspell thinks that colour is a > mispelling, i.e. it is using an American English dictionary! Have you tried M-x ispell-change-dictionary RET british RET? Have fun ----Daniel