Canadian Dictionary - Please get it right!

[Alison Wolanski]

Dear Microsoft,

As a Canadian, every time I try to write a document in any
Office application I feel colonized. I am a Canadian, not
an American or a Brit. and yet in order to have the way I
spell words recognized as legitimate, I need to flip back
and forth between these two dictionary settings.

Canadian spelling is a hybrid, its own unique thing.
Please put some effort into making the English(Canada)
dictionary actually reflect Canadian spelling. We
write "neighbour" not "neighbor". "Vigour" not "vigor".
There countless other examples.

Please do your homework. It is not as though we represent
an insignificant market for your products.

 

[Rob Schneider]

Dear Microsoft,

As a Canadian, every time I try to write a document in any
Office application I feel colonized. I am a Canadian, not
an American or a Brit. and yet in order to have the way I
spell words recognized as legitimate, I need to flip back
and forth between these two dictionary settings.

Canadian spelling is a hybrid, its own unique thing.
Please put some effort into making the English(Canada)
dictionary actually reflect Canadian spelling. We
write "neighbour" not "neighbor". "Vigour" not "vigor".
There countless other examples.

Please do your homework. It is not as though we represent
an insignificant market for your products.

Probably more effective to go to
http://www.microsoft.com/canada/default.mspx, in particular
http://www.microsoft.com/canada/contactus/default.mspx and write to
Microsoft (rather than this newsgroup).

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Have you set your keyboard language to English(Canada)?

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After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer
Alison Wolanski <[email protected]> asked:

| Dear Microsoft,
|
| As a Canadian, every time I try to write a document in any
| Office application I feel colonized. I am a Canadian, not
| an American or a Brit. and yet in order to have the way I
| spell words recognized as legitimate, I need to flip back
| and forth between these two dictionary settings.
|
| Canadian spelling is a hybrid, its own unique thing.
| Please put some effort into making the English(Canada)
| dictionary actually reflect Canadian spelling. We
| write "neighbour" not "neighbor". "Vigour" not "vigor".
| There countless other examples.
|
| Please do your homework. It is not as though we represent
| an insignificant market for your products.

 

[Mike Williams [MVP]]

Dear Microsoft,

As a Canadian, every time I try to write a document in any
Office application I feel colonized. I am a Canadian, not
an American or a Brit. and yet in order to have the way I
spell words recognized as legitimate, I need to flip back
and forth between these two dictionary settings.

Canadian spelling is a hybrid, its own unique thing.
Please put some effort into making the English(Canada)
dictionary actually reflect Canadian spelling. We
write "neighbour" not "neighbor". "Vigour" not "vigor".
There countless other examples.

Please do your homework. It is not as though we represent
an insignificant market for your products.

It appears that you haven't down your homework and set up your PC to reflect
Canadian input, especially by using the English(Canada) keyboard language
and setting this language tag in Word. Once this is done then you'll see
that the Canadian portion of the English seppler lexicon is used. NB this
won't work unless you have Word 2000 or later.


Mike Williams - Office MVP http://www.mvps.org/faq/

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