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    Force English Dictionary in Firefox Instead of UK Dictionary

    One thing that has bugged me for awhile is that my firefox spell check always uses the British spelling, not the US spelling. I disabled the South African and English (GB) language packs, and I have the US Spell check dictionary installed. I also have firefox-locale-en installed. I thought that might fix it but that was not the case. So if I type color it says it needs spell checked as it believes it should be colour. If I type honor, it thinks it should be honour. In about:config I tried changing all references to en-GB to en-US, but that did not solve it either. How can I force en-Us instead of en-UK?
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    #2
    I found this link. I hope that it will help. Change Spellcheck Language
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      #3
      Thanks for the response notabug! Technically this works, but the problem is it does not stick. This has to be changed every time.
      OS: Kubuntu 12.10/Windows 8
      CPU: Intel Core i7 2600K
      Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H
      Memory: 2x4GB Corsair Dominator
      Graphics Card: MSI R7770
      Monitor: Dell 2208WFP
      Mouse: Mionix NAOS 5000
      PSU: Corsair 520HX
      Case: Thermaltake Mozart TX
      Cooling: Thermalright TRUE Black Ultra-120 eXtreme CPU Heatsink Rev C
      Hard Drives: 1x180 GB Intel 330 SSD - 1xWD 1 TB Caviar Black - 1xWD 2 TB Caviar Green - 2xWD 3 TB Caviar Green

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        #4
        I wish I knew more that could help you. The setting is the same for my Firefox in Kubuntu and Windows 8. I didn't even know I had the UK spellcheck dictionary in the Kubuntu Firefox until I checked, after you posted the question. So far, the settings for the dictionary has not changed for me.
        Linux User #454271

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          #5
          Somehow I've ended up with USA English as default in System Settings/Locales/Country Region & Language/Languages.
          Also System Settings/Locales/Country Region & Language/Country is set to United States of America.
          And then System Settings/Locales/Spell Checker/ the default language is set to English (United States of America).

          Automatic Spell Checking is on by default is checked.
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            #6
            Originally posted by luckyone View Post
            Somehow I've ended up with USA English as default in System Settings/Locales/Country Region & Language/Languages.
            Also System Settings/Locales/Country Region & Language/Country is set to United States of America.
            And then System Settings/Locales/Spell Checker/ the default language is set to English (United States of America).

            Automatic Spell Checking is on by default is checked.
            Not being rude but I don't understand what your point is.
            OS: Kubuntu 12.10/Windows 8
            CPU: Intel Core i7 2600K
            Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H
            Memory: 2x4GB Corsair Dominator
            Graphics Card: MSI R7770
            Monitor: Dell 2208WFP
            Mouse: Mionix NAOS 5000
            PSU: Corsair 520HX
            Case: Thermaltake Mozart TX
            Cooling: Thermalright TRUE Black Ultra-120 eXtreme CPU Heatsink Rev C
            Hard Drives: 1x180 GB Intel 330 SSD - 1xWD 1 TB Caviar Black - 1xWD 2 TB Caviar Green - 2xWD 3 TB Caviar Green

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              #7
              Don't understand how you could be rude. I forgot to mention that I did a sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales. If nothing is checked there except US English, there should be nothing else that can be used. Plus under Content/Languages>-Choose in FF Preferences you should select the US version also.

              Extra content fleshes out what I was trying to say. This is where I believe your problem occurs. Certainly didn't mean to provoke.
              GigaByte GA-965G-DS3, Core2Duo at 2.1 GHz, 4 GB RAM, ASUS DRW-24B1ST, LiteOn iHAS 324 A, NVIDIA 7300 GS, 500 GB and 80 GB WD HDD

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