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	napalmnacey 2008-11-26 12:34 am UTC (link)
	What's worse is that some of the British English things I learnt in school don't seem to be in the British English dictionaries that you download with most programmes. Like doubling the last consonant of a word when you add 'ed'. Like, there are some words I do that with and my spell check freaks out. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	tree 2008-11-26 01:54 am UTC (link)
	oh god it pains my soul when they're not doubled; I have to insert them mentally (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	napalmnacey 2008-11-26 02:04 am UTC (link)
	Do a search for "alloted" and despair at the number of pages that show up. TWO T's, motherfuckers! (Reply to this)(Parent)

ellensmithee
2008-11-26 01:44 pm UTC (link)

To further depress you, I work in a writing field and do a lot of computer texts in both British and American English, and "programme" is officially spelled like American "program" in regard to software in British English (the traditional spelling holds for the other meanings of the word).

I noticed the consonant doubling thing recently, but I thought it was an error in the spell checker.

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	napalmnacey 2008-11-29 12:51 am UTC (link)
	I refuse to leave off the 'me' in that word and nothing will make me write it any different, yo! (Reply to this)(Parent)

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