Poco General FAQ - American or British Spell Check?

Poco General FAQ - American or British Spell Check?

Q: I want to use the American spelling for words. I noticed that the American dictionary (AmerAdd) is only 4 kb while the British is 498. This seems impossible.
 
A: The following is an edited version of the description of the "AmerAdd" dictionary from the Addictive Software website (Addictive Software are the makers of the spell check component used within Poco).

AmerAdd is the "American Add-On English Dictionary - [It] contains all the words in [the] American [dictionary] that are not in [the] English [dictionary] - [It] can be used with British.Dct to give both American & British Spelling options."

There is also an American dictionary available (American.dct). It will only give you the American spellings of words (it will consider words like "humour" to be spelledi incorrectly). Thus, if you don't want the British spellings of words, download the American dictionary. Instructions for installing the dictionary can be found on the Poco website.

To enable both British and American spellings:

  1. Open a Compose window,
  2. Select "Configure Spelling..." from the "Message" menu,
  3. Click on the box beside "American Add-on v2"
  4. Press the "Ok" button.

A note for users of the British dictionary, an improved version is available.