Australian, British, and Canadian English Grammar and Spell Checkers

March 26, 2016 1:36 PM

I have an American English grammar and spell checker that I like, but I sometimes write for foreign markets. Do you know of any good Australian, British or Canadian English grammar and spell checkers? (Online preferred.)

Thanks!

posted by Michele in California to Writing & Language (4 answers total)

Oxford English Grammar was always the standard for me, growing up in Canada. Maybe this varies by country.
posted by Miss T.Horn at 2:29 PM on March 26, 2016 [1 favorite]

Canadian English is maddeningly difficult to get right. Google's online tools are terrible, for a long while Office for Mac denied it was even a thing, and Android quietly assumed you meant US English. MeFi's Own™ Joe Clark wrote Organizing Our Marvellous Neighbours about the whole mess.
posted by scruss at 7:39 PM on March 26, 2016 [2 favorites]

Pages on OS X has support for all of those languages, though I can't vouch for how good it is. Seems okay with Australian English. Just checking it now, it doesn't have a grammar checker but it has something called Proofreader, which checks for some grammatical and other errors. It's free with Macs.
posted by mewsic at 10:26 PM on March 26, 2016 [1 favorite]

Response by poster: Thanks all!
I did find this online: https://www.spellchecker.net/english_australia_spell_checker.html, but it said it was not compatible with my browser.

I don't often need this. I will keep my eye out for web based resources and add them to my toolbox as I find them. I will check some of what has been suggested.
posted by Michele in California at 1:54 PM on March 28, 2016