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Originally Posted by Strange Famous
btw - Firefox has some kind of spell checker, which advised me to change the word paedophile to "pedophile"... is this not the most philistine thing you have ever heard of? Ridiculous.
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Um no, it's not. You spell it "paedophile" because you write/speak UK english. That is chiefly the British form of the spelling. "Pedophile" is the spelling found in american dictionaries, with "paedophile" listed as a variant chiefly of British use. I'm not saying either is the "correct" one, i'm noting the differences.
So no, it's not ridiculous, it's a cultural difference. That would be like me saying it's ridiculous that you spell "color" as "colour". It's not ridiculous, it's just one of the many nuances between "UK English" and "US English".
So if you don't like it doing that, consider that the program is written in America, and therefore is going to have some differences in the use of the language, before you subject it to your indignation.