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

[nickgripton]

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

[AnnikaKoenig]

Hi @nickgripton! Thanks for reporting this. I will try to reproduce this on my end. 

[R Neil Haugen]

Brits. Sheesh, don't even know how to spell our shared language!  😉

And we're not even talking Scots, here, the wife's family ... oh ... my ... watching a "football" game from Edinburgh is nearly incomprensible over here across the pond ... 

Isn't language fun?

[Kevin-Monahan]

Hi @nickgripton,

I updated the status of this bug report. Our product team is working on this bug now.

Thanks,
Kevin

[DanTheBib]

@Kevin-Monahan Any update on this? Ran into this issue today manually correcting 12 different transcripts for things like this.

[Stan Jones]

@AnnikaKoenig,

I tested as follows:

I added English UK to my Win 10 US English install. It shows spellcheck as added. In the transcript, I changed "cheesecake" to "cheesecake," and added "color" and "recognise." I changed the transcript tab 3 dots spell check to English UK.

The incorrect chesecake and color are underlined in red, but reconise is not.

The transcript spellcheck is using the system spellcheck?

Stan

[nickgripton]

@Stan Jones To be clear my windows is installed UK english only.

[nickgripton]

I do wonder if this would be fixed already if it were the US english that it wasn't recognising....

[R Neil Haugen]

There are issues in US English also. Just FYI...

[MyerPj]

?

[Stan Jones]

@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-...

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

[nickgripton]

@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.

[nickgripton]

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

[Stan Jones]

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

[nickgripton]

@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.

[nickgripton]

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. 

[nickgripton]

@Kevin-Monahan Any update on this?

[R Neil Haugen]

Isn't that "spelled" ... ?   😉

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

[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

[R Neil Haugen]

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?  😉

[AnnikaKoenig]

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.

[R Neil Haugen]

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

[nickgripton]

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