Canadian Spell Check & English (Canadian) language

[Marko Vojinovic]

On Sun, 18 Aug 2013 09:12:36 -0600
Peter Gueckel <pgueckel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> What are Canadian spellings?
> 
> Mostly, we use British, as in -our in colour, -ou as in moustache, -
> oeu as in manoeuvre, -re as in centre and we follow the rule about 
> doubling the last consonant of a word that ends in a vowel followed 
> by a consonant when adding a suffix that begins with a vowel, such as 
> travelled and tunnelling. But do people use foetus, diarrhoea, 
> mediaeval and encyclopaedia? Not likely.
> 
> There doesn't appear to be an official language policy and the 
> majority of computer users don't know how to set their word processor 
> programs to Canadian, or don't care. I have seen spellings that are 
> blatantly American in governmental communications and the Canadian 
> media.

   http://xkcd.com/1238/

Best, :-)
Marko