Add English UK as a language
Unmutual TESTER ·
What would you like?
English UK variant to be added as a language
Why it would help
At the moment only the US version of English is available as a language and it has quite a few variations with respect to spelling. Not having UK English as a language is a regression in comparison to the native keyboard and will likely discourage uk users
A list of the different words is available here
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_spelling_variants>
Discussion
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@Unmutual English (UK) is in as a separate language, coming in build 408. It's a full second dictionary: colour, favourite, centre, realise, grey, programme and about 2 000 more spellings sit at the same rank as the US forms do now, and the US forms drop to the bottom so they still don't get autocorrected if you type one on purpose. Cheque, storey, licence and programme sit next to check, story, license and program since both exist in UK English.
What changed in my tests: typos like coluor or neighbuor now fix to colour and neighbour instead of color and neighbor, and swiping colour, favourite or theatre lands on the British word 16 out of 16 times (before it was 1 out of 16). Contractions, its/it's and the rest of the English rules work the same as on US.
It's a download of about 15 MB, shows up in the language list as English (UK), and if your phone region is UK you'll get a card offering the switch after the update. It's marked Beta until someone who writes British English daily has used it for a while, so if a word gets fixed the wrong way, post it here with what you typed.