On the importance of British English
I like to spell with British English. Its probably because of my upbringing doing the O Level Examinations, at my high school.
For the last few days that Mac was annoying me, so I found out how to have British English available for all my applications. System Preferences -> International -> Input Menu. Select British. It will ask you to look for the Input Menu, I just selected the British flag and got rid of the input menu, to reduce clutter from the menu bar.
Firefox however, still decided to misbehave. It was then I realised that we had to download additional dictionaries for Firefox. That was easily done, thanks to the plugin architecture – visit Add-ons: Dictionaries. I wonder why it doesn’t use the system dictionary (I noticed that even in Linux, I had the dictionary add-on).
Now, I’m happily typing and not noticing typos of the spelling kind.
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I’m fond of the British English too. Other things you can do if you’re pedantic is build your system with en_GB or en_AU locales, and/or set your webpages to indicate that the language is not US UTF-8, but British UTF-8. :)