British English - Code Spell Checker

British English dictionary extension for VS Code. This dictionary includes both the -ise and -ize spelling variants according to the Oxford English Dictionary.

Note: this is a replacement dictionary for the one that is bundled with Code Spell Checker. Due to licensing restrictions, the bundled dictionary is many years old.

Installation

Once this extension is installed, the updated British English dictionary will automatically be used, if the en-gb locale is used.

Enable or Disable the Dictionary

Run these commands with F1 or View -> Command Palette...:

Command	What	Value	Scope
Enable British English Spell Checker Dictionary	locale	en-GB	global
Disable British English Spell Checker Dictionary	locale	en-GB	global
Enable British English Spell Checker Dictionary in Workspace	locale	en-GB	workspace
Disable British English Spell Checker Dictionary in Workspace	locale	en-GB	workspace

Manual Settings

This is done with the language setting.

Preferences -> Settings

Replacing en with en-GB in the cSpell.language setting will check British English spelling instead of American English:

"cSpell.language": "en-GB",

To accept both the American and the British English spellings:

"cSpell.language": "en,en-GB",

Dictionaries

Dictionary	enabled	locale	languageId	glob
`en-gb`	conditional	`en-GB`

The enabled column says when a dictionary is used:

yes: for every file.
conditional: when all of the row's conditions match. An empty cell is no condition.
no: only after you enable it, with its Enable command or in cSpell.dictionaries.

The conditions:

locale: cSpell.language includes one of these locales.
languageId: the file is one of these types.
glob: the file's path matches one of these patterns.

Requirements

This extension will automatically include the Code Spell Checker extension.

Tool	Version
cspell	`>=10`
Code Spell Checker	`>=4.7.0`

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