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

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June 6, 2024
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UK English Spell check not finding mispelt words with Z in place of S. "Recognize" should be "Recognise" for example. Pretty basic stuff.

Pinned Reply By AnnikaKoenig

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

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nickgriptonAuthor

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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.

nickgriptonAuthor

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@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.

Stan Jones

Community Expert

Yes, I think the issue is that they are using the OS spellcheck. They think "ize" is not INcorrect. Which means that this may require a change in the speech to text.

There is a search and replace. In the Transcript tab (source monitor or sequence view), add "ize" in the search box. Then click "Replace" and add "ise". You can "Replace all", or use "Replace" and step through one at a time.

@AnnikaKoenig Shouldn't the transcription for UK English be using "ise" for these?

Stan

nickgriptonAuthor

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Just tested in Illustrator to see how it fairs. Looks like they have their own set of problems in British English, incredible.

nickgriptonAuthor

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@Stan JonesThanks. But recognising ize as correct is still incorrect in British English. Recognise is always with S and never Z. Sadly its not just recognise, but anything that ends in -ise. So the workaround is really just manually checking for things that aren't unerlined as incorrect by reading the entire text. There are no search, find & replace features, so actually the best thing would be to leave adobe, use another program to spell check.

Stan Jones

Community Expert

@nickgripton,

Sorry; I obviously messed up my post. I should have been using the word "recognize."

I found a link to the staff post regarding spell check relying on the system settings.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-discussions/how-change-spell-check-lanhuage-in-premiere-pro/m-p/12905409#M408067

I just tested by creating a Word document and typing Recognise, Recognize, Chesecake, and Color.

With my regular US English setting, it flags Recognise and Chesecake as incorrect. When I switch the proofing language to UK English, it flags Color and Chesecake, but neither Recognise - s or z.

The problem is the spell checker allows either spealling for UK English, and the only setting option is to teach it a word it doesn't know. But it knows "recognize," and will not correct it for another word it already knows - "recognise."

The workaround here would be to search for recognize and replace with recognise. Not elegant, and that's only one exception.

Stan