Who misses when words didn't constantly change their spelling?

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[–]StillLessons 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I've been particularly annoyed recently that the "gods" (=arrogant morons) of Silicon Valley have decided that words spelled with "ze" at the end (e.g. recognize among many many like it) shall henceforth be spelled with "s" (recognise). It's not a suggestion, either. Their spellcheckers automatically change these spellings if you put them in. Because they know best... Yes, it's annoying as hell.

[–]jet199 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

That's the British spelling because the pronunciation is slightly different.

Make sure you have your spell checker set to American English.

[–]trident765 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Once this happened to me and I checked to make US English was checked in Firefox's preferences, and it was, but Firefox kept enforcing the gay British spellings anyway.

[–]jet199 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I feel gay spellings would be "sth".