British -ize spelling

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Nicholas Cole

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Jan 3, 2010, 1:07:01 PM1/3/10
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I'm using the latest version of MacVim (returning to Vim use after a
long time using another editor on the Mac). Since I last used vim
properly, native spelling checking seems to have been added (a very
welcome addition - the days of fighting with plug-ins are over!).

Is there a dictionary available that gives the British spelling but
with the -ize variants? en_gb isn't right for me, since I'm using Vim
to write documents for publishers that require the 'academic'
spellings.

Alternatively, is there a way to make MacVim work with cocoapell,
which is what I use to get around this problem in other places...

Best wishes and happy New Year to one and all,

Nicholas

Yongwei Wu

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Jan 4, 2010, 8:01:53 AM1/4/10
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2010/1/4 Nicholas Cole <nichol...@gmail.com>:

> I'm using the latest version of MacVim (returning to Vim use after a
> long time using another editor on the Mac).  Since I last used vim
> properly, native spelling checking seems to have been added (a very
> welcome addition - the days of fighting with plug-ins are over!).
>
> Is there a dictionary available that gives the British spelling but
> with the -ize variants?  en_gb isn't right for me, since I'm using Vim
> to write documents for publishers that require the 'academic'
> spellings.

As far as I know, the en_gb dictionary allows the -ize spelling, and I
use it as my default language. If, in addition, you want to mark the
-ise spelling as an error, you may try the en_ca dictionary. The
variants are all in the English dictionary shipped with Vim (at least
this is the case on Windows).

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A. S. Budden

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Jan 4, 2010, 8:12:13 AM1/4/10
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2010/1/4 Yongwei Wu <wuyo...@gmail.com>:

Alternatively, it's not that hard to make your own spell file. I
created my own British spell file by editing the MySpell ones and
removing all the references to -ize (as I wanted the more commonly
used in England -ise spellings but not the -ize ones). It was very
straightforward, the instructions are here:

:help spell-mkspell

Al

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