Forum spell checking?

[RayProudfoot]

Forum software doesn't like my English spelling of some words? Is it set for US spelling?

Wouldn't be aluminum (aluminium) by any chance? The only language option in User Control Panel is British English.

[Super-T]

aluminium is English, Aluminum all others
Colonials follow the mother country

[RayProudfoot]

I hope this thread doesn't deviate too much as it's proving an excellent guide for station accuracy. Let me just paste this from Wikipedia and hope it clears up any ambiguity about the spelling and pronunciation of aluminium (aluminum)....

Most countries use the spelling aluminium (with an i before -um). In the United States, this spelling is largely unknown, and the spelling aluminum predominates.[54][55] The Canadian Oxford Dictionary prefers aluminum, whereas the Australian Macquarie Dictionary prefers aluminium.

The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) adopted aluminium as the standard international name for the element in 1990, but three years later recognized aluminum as an acceptable variant. Hence their periodic table includes both.[56] IUPAC officially prefers the use of aluminium in its internal publications, although several IUPAC publications use the spelling aluminum.

[steve]

As far as I can tell, the forum doesn't do spell checking. There's an add-on for it, but I don't have it installed. It doesn't seem to care whether I use aluminium or aluminum, and has never pointed out anything that I've mis-typed before. Are you sure it's not your browser?

[EvilV]

My Google Chrome browser underlines the word 'aluminum' in red - not the forum. I think Steve has probably hit the nail on the head above. My browser is set to British English.

[Super-T]

I hadn't thought of the browser being the culprit. I use Flock aka Firefox. I checked the language setting and it was on US English...changed to NZ English and still shows Aluminium as incorrect. Ah well...who cares anyway. I used this 5 metre metal tube pole for the weather instruments!
Aluminium aluminum

[werribee_au]

Post in the pic.

Edit: I have Google Chrome set to use "English (Australia)" for 'spell checker language' and got the same result.

[EvilV]

Ah well...who cares anyway. I used this 5 metre metal tube pole for the weather instruments!