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Why does my iPhone think that “color” ought to be spelled “colour”?

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August 01, 2023, 01:07 PM
Pipe Smoker
Why does my iPhone think that “color” ought to be spelled “colour”?
In Settings => General => Dictionary I have:

English (US) New Oxford American Dictionary

checked. That ought to do it, but all things Apple having been going south since Steve Jobs died.


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August 01, 2023, 01:09 PM
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August 01, 2023, 01:10 PM
Loswsmith
You have Siri set to the sexy female Australian voice?


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August 01, 2023, 01:12 PM
RichardC
You were gloogliering beans on toast recipes, weren't you.


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August 01, 2023, 01:12 PM
DirectDrive
Did you re-boot after the setting change ?
August 01, 2023, 01:18 PM
ensigmatic
Because it knows how to spell?


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August 01, 2023, 02:39 PM
joel9507
quote:
... Oxford American Dictionary

Oxford being located in a 'colourful' country, I'd suspect a change of dictionary to something with "Webster" in its name might get rid of objectionable 'u's that might sneak past an editor based in the U.K.
August 01, 2023, 02:54 PM
LS1 GTO
Language is set to English instead of Standard English Razz





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August 01, 2023, 02:55 PM
flesheatingvirus
Is that one the aluminium model?


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August 01, 2023, 03:18 PM
Sig2340
quote:
Originally posted by LS1 GTO:
Language is set to English instead of Standard English Razz


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August 01, 2023, 04:52 PM
Pipe Smoker
quote:
Originally posted by RichardC:
You were gloogliering beans on toast recipes, weren't you.

Smile


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August 01, 2023, 06:43 PM
berto
quote:
Originally posted by Loswsmith:
You have Siri set to the sexy female Australian voice?


I see I’m not the only one.
August 01, 2023, 06:50 PM
FishOn
quote:
Originally posted by berto:
quote:
Originally posted by Loswsmith:
You have Siri set to the sexy female Australian voice?


I see I’m not the only one.


Nope
August 01, 2023, 06:57 PM
IntrepidTraveler
A while back, I had my iPhone set to the Aussie female voice. It did the colour thing. But it also defaulted to Aussie daylight saving time dates, which are different from US. To make it worse, I repeatedly asked Siri (who I believe is incredibly stupid) when DST changes in the UNITED STATES, and she kept giving me the Aussie date. I could only solve that by changing to a US voice.

It may be different now.



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August 01, 2023, 06:58 PM
wrightd
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August 04, 2023, 05:03 PM
Pipe Smoker
The solution!

I lunch at Shake Shack most Fridays. I like the little quarter-pound cheeseburger that isn’t too calorific. My T-Mobile store is adjacent to Shake Shack so I sought the answer there, and got it.

As I stated in my OP:
In Settings => General => Dictionary I have:
English (US) New Oxford American Dictionary

But there’s ALSO:
Settings => General => Keyboard => Keyboards

And there were several keyboards listed:
English (US), English (UK), Greek, etc. And, for some Weird Tim Cook reason, my iPhone was using English (UK) in preference to English (US) even though English (US) was listed first. Deleting the English (UK) keyboard fixed the “colour” problem.


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