[spelling][en-ca] British/Canadian Spellings being "corrected" to American

[tarfeef101]

Despite setting my preferences to use the Canadian "interpretation" of English, when writing, I'm still getting "corrected" to use American spellings, as below This is version 7.1.4 fwiw

[tiff]

Do you have a reference for that?

The ones I found all say that Canadian English prefers "~ize"

• https://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~rwest/wikispeedia/wpcd/wp/c/Canadian_English.htm#:~:text=Like%20American%20English%2C%20Canadian%20English,(e.g.%20realize%2C%20recognize).
• http://www.lukemastin.com/testing/spelling/cgi-bin/database.cgi?action=rules
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_spelling_differences

[tarfeef101]

Do you have a reference for that?

The ones I found all say that Canadian English prefers "~ize"

• https://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~rwest/wikispeedia/wpcd/wp/c/Canadian_English.htm#:~:text=Like%20American%20English%2C%20Canadian%20English,(e.g.%20realize%2C%20recognize).
• http://www.lukemastin.com/testing/spelling/cgi-bin/database.cgi?action=rules
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_spelling_differences

Your own links (notably the first 2) already state that the British spelling is used, though not exclusively. E.g.

However, some of the technical parts of the Air section of Transport Canada, e.g., Air Policy , use a compromised Cambridge model; e.g., tires instead of tyres, but organisational rather than organizational.

I can also anecdotally cite "my experience as a Canadian", I'd say that American spellings have become popular since the internet became more prevalent (and it largely America-centric). But in school (at least when I was in it) we were taught British spellings, and I'd say if nothing else both should be allowed for a Canadian English spellcheck.

[tiff]

Thanks for your input. We will reconsider.

From Wikipedia

In Canada, the -ize ending is more common, although the Ontario Public School Spelling Book[65] spelt most words in the -ize form, but allowed for duality with a page insert as late as the 1970s, noting: though the -ize spelling was in fact the convention used in the OED, that a choice to spell such words in the -ise form was a matter of personal preference, however a pupil having made the decision, one way or the other, thereafter ought to write uniformly not only for a given word, but to apply that same uniformity consistently for all words where the option is found. Just as with -yze spellings, however, in Canada the ize form remains the preferred or more common spelling, though both can still be found, yet the -ise variation, once more common amongst older Canadians, is increasingly employed less often in favour of the -ize spelling. (The alternate convention offered as a matter of choice may have been due to the fact that although there were an increasing number of American and British based dictionaries with Canadian Editions by the late 1970s, these were largely only supplemental in terms of vocabulary with subsequent definitions. It wasn't until the mid-1990s[66][67] that Canadian based dictionaries became increasingly common.)

[tarfeef101]

Thanks for your input. We will reconsider.

From Wikipedia

In Canada, the -ize ending is more common, although the Ontario Public School Spelling Book[65] spelt most words in the -ize form, but allowed for duality with a page insert as late as the 1970s, noting: though the -ize spelling was in fact the convention used in the OED, that a choice to spell such words in the -ise form was a matter of personal preference, however a pupil having made the decision, one way or the other, thereafter ought to write uniformly not only for a given word, but to apply that same uniformity consistently for all words where the option is found. Just as with -yze spellings, however, in Canada the ize form remains the preferred or more common spelling, though both can still be found, yet the -ise variation, once more common amongst older Canadians, is increasingly employed less often in favour of the -ize spelling. (The alternate convention offered as a matter of choice may have been due to the fact that although there were an increasing number of American and British based dictionaries with Canadian Editions by the late 1970s, these were largely only supplemental in terms of vocabulary with subsequent definitions. It wasn't until the mid-1990s[66][67] that Canadian based dictionaries became increasingly common.)

🤣 Guess I'm outing myself as an old fart