Change language to English (UK) and click OK Type an English (US) word 'Categorize' Click Tools > Spelling and Grammar - 'Spelling and Grammar check complete' i.e. It did not mark the work incorrect.

The option exists but it is quite well hidden and even if you find it, it can be a tad confusing. Click the Customise and Control icon (three horizontal lines in the top right corner of the window) then Settings and at the bottom click Show Advanced Settings. Under Languages select Languages and spell-checker settings.

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Resist the urge to choose English, under English (United States); all this does is display a bizarre message that says this language cannot be used for spell checking Instead click the Add button at the bottom of the page then select English (United Kingdom) from the drop down menu and click OK. This takes you back to the previous window where ‘Display Google Chrome in this Language’ and ‘Use this Language for spell checking’ should appear; on some versions these options have to be manually selected. Finally, click Done, or OK then close and restart Chrome, for the change to take effect.

UPDATE: On MacOS Sierra, after you have set your language preference using System Preferences -> Language and Region, you can then go to Text Preferences under Keyboard settings to follow step 3 (and onward) from below. If like me you have not yet learnt to drop the ‘u’ from ‘colour’, then you might have noticed that Mac OS X Snow Leopard makes it annoyingly difficult to switch the system language preference, especially for spell checking (worse, I suspect the interface for spell check language settings is buggy). To that end, below is a quick outline of the steps I used to switch to British English (click on the small images to see the full version). Hi Many Thanks for this information, however I have followed the instructions you set and my laptop is STILL dropping the U and putting z’s instead of s’s I am finding it really hard writing my essay and correcting the mistakes! Its only words like colour, behaviour, personalise etc etc When writing this message to you for example it has not come up with a red line underneath nor advises me to change to a Z however in word and I have Microsoft word for mac it does try and correct it to a Z!

I am confused!! Its wasting so much time with my essay!!!

Any help greatly appreciated Sarah xox. Hi, thanks for that explanation – this fixed things for Mail, Numbers, Keynote etc. MSWord is also OK, as the preferences allow the UK dictionary to be set. However, Pages resolutely refuses to accept the UK spellings. As a by-the-way, the UK dictionary is actually not correct. The true English spelling of criticize, etc IS with a Z. The use of S is French.

Check the Oxford English Dictionary if you don’t believe me. Funnily enough, when preceded by a Y (analyse etc) S IS correct. But I don’t suppose we can do much about that!

Re: the menus in OS X, they’ve never been available in UK English – only American (which is still the case, even as of 10.10), for some reason, despite other Apple products (and even Windows, after version 8) being available in different English types. I would suggest asking about a localisation at. In the meantime, there are ways of editing the Finder and other UI elements manually to display the preferred spellings, but they’re unofficial modifications, not sanctioned by Apple. British English is also easier to enable in later versions of OS X (post-Mavericks, at the very least) – if you set your region as UK when setting up a new Mac, spelling should be on Automatic by Language, but only British English should be selected – US should never be enabled if you set your region to UK on a new OS X installation. Once you’ve set everything to British English in System Preferences, you may find an existing Pages 4 document is still using American English for spell-checking.

This is because the language is part of a style in Pages 4. To correct this, select the whole text, then in the Inspector go to Text > More and choose the right Language. All should now be well, but you’ll need to update your Styles before writing any more. I haven’t found this option in Pages 5, so maybe it always uses the system language. I’m not going to change my system settings to find out!