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Comment on How to set the default language in Mac OSX or Pages to be Australian or British English by karan

karan — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 02:15:59 +0000

Hi Malcom, this post on MacTalk AU seemed to work for a number of people: http://www.mactalk.com.au/56/94672-word-2011-language-settings-stuck-us-eng.html#post1056018

Comment on How to set the default language in Mac OSX or Pages to be Australian or British English by Malcolm George

Malcolm George — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 01:00:34 +0000

Does this automatically work in MS office for MAC. I have changed the default language to UK English in “normal template (.dot) but still get americanisations in my documents

Comment on How to set the default language in Mac OSX or Pages to be Australian or British English by Sail

Sail — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:25:22 +0000

Hayo Baan – you are a legend – thank you so much :)

Comment on Battleship: the Movie by karan

karan — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 23:24:28 +0000

Rather badly, one suspects :) (though objection on the singing part there!)

Comment on Battleship: the Movie by Zhi

Zhi — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 22:57:40 +0000

Seriously, I didn’t think this could possibly be real either. Also…Rihanna? She can’t even sing, how is she supposed to act?

Comment on Mining is Making Aussies Lazy by karan

karan — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 23:34:44 +0000

Half forgot that I had a blog too until recently!

Comment on How to set the default language in Mac OSX or Pages to be Australian or British English by david

david — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 19:44:34 +0000

Thank you no more of that american rubbish

Comment on Mining is Making Aussies Lazy by Zhi

Zhi — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 04:24:46 +0000

Geez, I’d forgotten you had a blog…I didn’t know you read Macrobusiness too though!

Comment on Card Game: Sweep (a.k.a. Seep) by asdasd

asdasd — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 06:34:56 +0000

good effort but I should point that “seep” is the most popular game in rural Punjab (Indian Punjab) – played by young and old alike – and diamond 10 is worth six points (and the link that you posted for Pakistani rules is actually the rule followed in Punjab – Indian part of Punjab and Pakistani part of Punjab)

Comment on How to set the default language in Mac OSX or Pages to be Australian or British English by Hayo Baan

Hayo Baan — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 19:31:12 +0000

This has puzzled me for long: even setting the language order with British first, I got US spelling. Until this post I hadn’t bothered to investigate further, but on Lion, and I think (Snow) Leopard too, you need to change the order of the language in two locations in the “Language & Text” preferences:
1) At the “Language” tab. This one is straightforward
2) At the text tab. This one is almost hidden: Click on the selector box called “Spelling” (mine reads “Automatic by Language”), in the list of choices that pops up, at the bottom you’ll find “Set Up…” choose that and set the order of the languages there.
Note: You can also choose to always use e.g. “British English” of course, but that is not as useful al “Automatic by Language” in my opinion.

Cheers,
Hayo