Fouroom spelchequers

This may be apocryphal (spell check that microshaft!) but apparently there was once a conversation bertween an American and Noel Coward (now he definitely spoke queen's English ). It was about cars (automobiles). The American was insisting the parts were trunk, fender, hood etc. Noel was pointing out they are boot, bumper, bonnet etc. The American countered with "but Noel - we invented the automobile" (debatable as the Germans and French probably have a view on that) to which Mr Coward replied "that may very well be the case my dear chap but we invented the language".

So would Mr Microshaft and Mr Apple please take note and extend the courtesy that our mother tongue deserves (give it back and stop trying to break it ).

This has been a party political broadcast by the Home Counties Spellcheckers' Association.

OK - here we go

tyres tires

OH NO my UK English spell checker ACCEPTS BOTH.

Probably because if one is getting bored with something one tires of it.

Of course the US spell checker will reject tyres. But then you would expect that of a country that prefers to brew tea in tepid seawater. (joke boys - joke)

Proof reading is the only way to ensure accuracy. There used to be a software product called Grammatik which read sentences, checked context and then rated them in terms of readability giving them a score on the wonderfully named "Gunnings Fog Index". Always makes me smile!