Spell check not working for UK English. It's not recogniZing the incorrect z's.

So we're on Mac OS and the spellchecking to UK isn't working for us either and never has. And yes, Mac OS locale is set to English (UK)...

Haha I wouldn't know if it was spelt or spelled, hence my need for a spell checker.

Ahhh ... yea, I see your point. Ah well, it might be nice to have a Premiere spell-check list ... 😉

I wouldn't bet on it. We follow Microsoft, not the other way around. So we don't want users in Premiere messing with the operating system settings. If we were to switch to Adobe spellcheck instead of using the OS, then that would be a different story.

Wow, thanks for that information ... having been around this since it debuted, I've never heard of that list before! 

Now ... how about making that an easy thing to check and change within Premiere? Pretty please, with sugar and cream on it?  😉

Hey @nickgripton !

Thanks for checking in. Premiere Pro is bascially using the OS spellcheck. 

As you found, Microsoft is not flagging a lot of words that are not the common spelling in Britain like "realize" because it is not technically incorrect to spell it that way, even in Britain.

Lots of users are frustrated by Microsoft's choice here. The workaround Microsoft is suggesting is to create an exclude list and Premiere Pro will respect that list. 

Instructions:

• Navigate to this folder (you may need to unhide hidden folders first): C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Spelling
• Open the appropriate folder. For your case, "en-GB"

• Open this file in a text editor: default.exc

• Add all your words you want to be flagged as misspelled. One word per line, as such: 
• Reopen Premiere and see if you now get these words flagged as misspelled. That's it!

Thanks to Ai this shouldn't be too tedious. I have created a list for you that you could use as a starting point:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VtXRQlKZyEeh3wkuqM9C_XN5DOA1rXXX/view?usp=drive_link

Isn't that "spelled" ... ?   😉

There could be improvements ... I even had "labor" come up "labour" in the US English on my PC one time.

@Kevin-Monahan Any update on this?

18 months later... And this issue still persists in Premiere, today my client flagged 4 mispellings in a 60 second video that were spelt the USA way. 

@AnnikaKoenig @Kevin-Monahan  Hi This still seems to be an issue in the latest Premiere. This time it hasn't picked up the mispelling of "behaviour". My client certainly did. Which has cost me half a days rendering time.