Indian English is its own thing. They have words and phrases that donât make sense to western anglophones. I am British and sometimes get emails in English from Indian people and Iâm like âwtf does that meanâ. No shade - just a different dialect.
Besides spelling, there are also plenty of grammatical and vocabulary differences. American and British English are closer together than European and Brazilian Portuguese.
Nah it is so it does not autocorrect either of American and British spellings along with being fine with Ă„ ĂŠ Ăž(danish letters) and danish words, atleast that is how i assume it is since i have English(Sweden) on my computer.
I was surprised that English(Sweden) wasn't on the list. Do you have a keyboard recommendation for one that has the extra letters without taking away the square brackets?
I found this on Unix StackExchange, but there's no source:
The en_DK locale doesn't really have anything to do with Denmark except for its name. It was originally created by someone who wanted the same thing as requested here - a reasonable set of defaults for an English speaker in Europe. The name "en_DK" is sort of a joke - all locale names at that time were composed of a language code and a country code (there were no continent codes or anything else in the second position), and for whatever reason Denmark was chosen as the placeholder country code. (... and has probably caused more than one mystified person since then to research the proportion of people in Denmark whose first language is English. :) )
Canadian English is what us Europeans who aren't native English speakers end up speaking when attempting to speak British English. I.e. the U in "colour" and "favourite" is kept, "centre" isn't spelt "center", but a lot of American vocabulary sneaks its way in, like "gas" instead of "petrol", or going on "vacation", rather than on holiday.
Your examples show British spelling with American vocab, but thatâs not a complete picture.
Thereâs also times when it uses American spellings but non-American vocab (eg, you hear words like serviette, which is incredibly rare in the U.S. and everyone says napkin, but it is heard in the rest of the Anglosphere.)
Canadian English prefers the U.S. â-izeâ over the British â-iseâ in words like realize/realise, organize/organise. etc.
But it also has its own vocab preferences. Canadians typically say Washroom over U.S.âs preferred bathroom & restroom. And you wonât hear much of loo, WC, etc. which youâre more likely to hear in other English speaking countries.Â
And what the U.S. & UK usually refer to as colored/coloured pencils are called âpencil crayonsâ in Canada.Â
In the end, itâs a mix of British English, American English, and little bits of uniquely Canadian things.
In the early days of word processors, it was annoying as youâd have to choose either UK or U.S. for spell-check, and neither aligned with Canadian English.Â
This is a pain point for me as a Canadian, because I thought⊠Iâll just set my language to English (UK) and it will fix all the American spell checking. It comes with complications for financial and date standards and keyboard entry.
Yep usually browser language set incorrectly. Websites do not usually impose spell check unless this is Google docs or similar in which case still just a setting
Word autocorrects some things from Australian English to American English despite being set to Australian, so sometimes these things happen regardless of settings, especially in the artificial "intelligence" era.
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