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From: horne-scott@cs.yale.edu (Scott Horne)
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Subject: Re: American to English spelling
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Date: 16 Nov 90 20:01:22 GMT
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In article <1990Nov14.223747.3410@rbdc> kathy@rbdc (Kathy Vincent) writes:
>tut@cairo.Eng.Sun.COM (Bill "Bill" Tuthill) writes:
<
<<Does anybody have an editor script to convert American spelling
<<(localize, color) to English spelling (localise, colour)?  I'd use
<<the term British instead of English, except that English spelling
<<is also the norm in Australia, New Zealand, and Canada.
<
<I don't know about an editor script, but the UNIX "spell" utility
<has a -b option (that's "b" for British).  If you're concerned with
<locating words that need to be changed, that should help.  (I haven't
<tried the particular word, but I imagine it would tell you to switch
<"jail" to "gaol," too, as someone was wondering about.  :-)  )

No, it doesn't:

-----------------------cut here--------------------
jaguar> spell -b
gaol jail colour color localise localize
----At this point, I'm going to type a ^D; everything after this is the 
output of `spell----    
color
localize
-----------------------cut here--------------------

The only misspellings it found are `color' and `localize'.

<You could then use those words to make a "vi" shell script that
<globally searches and replaces -- but allows you to yea or nay each
<occurrance (the "c" option at the end of the "s"ubstitute command).
 ^^^^^^^^^^

That's `occurrence'.  :-)  (Follow-ups to `alt.flame.spelling'.  :-) )

					--Scott

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