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Why does The Times think I am writing comments in English (US)?

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Andais
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I have set my preferred language on Mozilla to English (GB) but every time I post a comment underneath an article on The Times website it thinks I should be using English (US), even though the website itself is formatted in English (GB). For example, if I write 'sympathise' the site underlines it in red as in fact this site is doing at the moment.

What am I doing wrong?

I have set my preferred language on Mozilla to English (GB) but every time I post a comment underneath an article on The Times website it thinks I should be using English (US), even though the website itself is formatted in English (GB). For example, if I write 'sympathise' the site underlines it in red as in fact this site is doing at the moment. What am I doing wrong?

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Hi, are you sure that only the British dictionary is enabled? - Right click on a word in the text field. You might need to restart Firefox.

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Scribe
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Hi, your dictionary might be a US version. You can right click on an underlined word to add the correct (British) spelling to the existing dictionary, or install a British one -

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/british-english-dictionary-2/

For ref: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/language-tools/

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Andais
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Dear Scribe

Thank you, I have installed the dictionary however the problem is still occurring. Is there something in the about:config page that might be causing this problem?

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Chosen Solution

Hi, are you sure that only the British dictionary is enabled? - Right click on a word in the text field. You might need to restart Firefox.

Andais
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That seems to have solved it, thank you.