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UK english
I bought MS Word yesterday (Office) I've a LAPTOP. I've set it to UK English, but it still wants to change my 'leant' into 'leaned', my 'focussed' into 'focused', my 'backwards and forwards' into 'ba...
Thanks. If you look at my reply on July 3rd, 10:28, you'll see I've already gone to the language 'group' (where it says 'translate' and 'language'). I clicked on 'Language' then clicked on 'set proofing language' and it's already set to UK English. Okay, so I opened a word document with 'any more' in it, highlighted 'any more' and then clicked on set proofing language again. UK English was still selected, then I clicked 'OK' and nothing happened – 'any more' still underlined.
"any more" is correct, at least in US when it is referring to quantity, but an error if it is referring to time or sequence. Here is English US:
English UK gives the same result.
- No, the top one's an adverb, the bottom's a determiner and in UK English they are both written as 'any more'. The top one is usually 'anymore' in US English. But! All my messing around with this has improved word with the English spelling. Not sure what I've tweaked, thanks to you lot, but 'focussed', 'backwards and forwards' etc. is no longer being underlined.
Thanks a bunch to you all!