This is a very original idea. Good job

BRILLIANT! hehehe so different but so cool for us brits hey?!

With english you are lucky !...
If you had to do it in french... I can give you more than a hundred of language errors !
It is sometimes a riddle, I wonder sometimes if I will not reinstall the game in original version.
Good job... for UK !

I know what you mean… same reason I don't play TS2 in my native dutch.
But these silly mistakes in UK English bug me. If you're providing a UK English locale, at least do some effort for it ^.^

The Swedish version was okay, mostly, but I prefer the English version
Very clever idea!-Brit spell rules ;D

That's clever!

I like it, very cool idea! But i don't mind the way Americans spell things so i'll leave it, fantastic idea though!

Awesome idea! I'm an American though, so I'll just keep the "u"less version.

Great idea for us brits who get annoyed by the spelling errors in game. For me not so much. I don't mind the odd spelling mistake (or americanism).we're only human right, even those who code the games.
Very original idea -kirsty

Lol, thank you! Wish you could do the same for MsWord!!!

Well, I'm glad the German version has been translated nearly perfect.

@crocobaura: Can't you choose in MSWord? I can choose between US- and UK-English (I chose German, though :D)...

Apparently not, 'cause at the end of a well spelled text in UK english I get lots of spelling errors notices because of the american english.

Try OpenOffice then.

Oh and as for the mod: "What would we do without 'u'!"

I have found a good link about this...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelling_differences
It is quite interesting to read.
All the best,
ZenFrog

Wow! This is a great idea!
The Finnish version is OK, but I play in English, as the school system is so different I'd feel weird playing in Finnish and having the kids go to expensive private school. (Almost all kids in Finland go to public schools as the public school system and teachers are excellent here.)

Woo thanks for this! I dont have a problem with american spellings but when you select for the language to be english UK it bugs me when you end up with neighborhood! lol

Yay for England! Thankyou!!

This is an interesting idea and I can appreciate the desire to see things spelled consistently with one's culture/language, but I take exception to it being called a "correction" of American English.



Sherbrooke - be careful about riding that "hobby horse" - I would call it a soap box and perhaps even a line in the sand. American English is different - not wrong and it is most definitely English. Consider for an instant that most vowels are pronounced openly and fully - not chopped as you hear in most modern British. American English departs from British English at the time of colonization and it's said that the Maine accent is as close as you can get to the original Shakespearean pronunciation. Again, consider how "Mainiacs" carefully pronounce their vowels. The spelling changes that occured under President FDR, such as dropping so many "u"s, were an attempt to simplify the language. I have no idea why he picked on "u" when he left so many other spelling irregularities resulting mostly from the French influence on English. I would have preferred to keep the original spelling, but do consider: Does anyone really pronounce that "u"? (For that matter, why is "sugar" pronounced "shurgar", or is that just an American pronunciation?)

In any case, would you please try to NOT insult an entire nation, its language (and hence its culture) when you are trying to compliment a mod?

Keep your trousers on VerDeTerre...it is a correction - of what's supposed to be British English in the game, but patently isn't. And I've never heard anyone in the UK call it 'shurgar'...unless they were drunk and slurring.

Interesting mod - though I'm so used to seeing everything spelt 'wrong' I probably won't use it.

What a great idea, much appreciated!
Fed up with all the american spelling, we invented the language
Another extra thanks!
Emma, x x x

Actually you didn't, but ANYWAYS cool somebody made this :-p

Ok, ladies and gentlemen (and I use that term loosely).. Please refrain from insults and derogatory remarks. Comments should be limited to usage, not cultural rants. Remember there are people from all over the world on this site.

Wording of initial post changed to hopefully make its purpose a little more clear.

I did /not/ do this mod to get into a debate about the merits and disadvantages of one form of English over another: I just wanted a more consistent interface. I chose ‘UK English’ for a reason when installing after all.

In reply to some questions I got over PM: there are several reasons I don't see myself doing the job for objects as well.
Reason #1 is that it would take a lot of time,
#2 is that it would require a different version for each XP or SP, and
#3 is that it /will/ potentially lead to problems since the only way to do it is by editing the object descriptions. Any other object mod would conflict with it.
Changing the GUI is far less likely to conflict, as as far as I know I'm the only one who did a mod like this!

colour or color lolz, woo and yay! nice mod here