I rather dislike these americanised spellcheckers. I used to know how to spell words and it makes me quite unsure of spellings. Does anyone else have this issue?

Yes American English is so constricting. It doesn't like Brasil, and Brasil doesn't like Brazil.
It doesn't like Americanised, but accept ZZZs all the time.
Rubbish I say.
I think we all ought to set ours to NZ English or Aussie English and really have some fun.

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I relate to your concerns. However, you would not be understood by a lot of AB users.
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by Rollie on January 12th, 2009
Well, I'm pretty sure every other version of english on the planet has the exact same spelling of words.

Thanks for the answer.
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by Anon on January 12th, 2009
you are correct about not being understood most of the time as Aus has so many colloquial phrases that make no sense here.
English spellcheckers are a pain in the butt.
It is fine if you really spell a word incorrectly.
But if a word is spelled correct, but used incorrect, spell check doesn't help at all.
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by cunning stunt who u calling chicken on January 12th, 2009
Australian english hasn't changed any original spellings, it has just made additions to the language, which, I seriously doubt anyone would consider to need to be correct in a spellchecker, of all things..
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by Anon on January 12th, 2009
I agree with the use of the word comments. I have to be careful all the time. My 'in' and 'it' get mixed up and so do the 'of' and 'on'. LOL
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by Rollie on January 12th, 2009

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