Hello Tim

I would have suggested Hamid's solution too, but I still wonder why the 
publisher won't accept the English-English spellings.

Here a pupil or student will get a very, very fat red mark, if they 
spell 'honour' as 'honor' - 'occor' instead of 'occour' etc..:-)

I remember from my school- and high school days that our teacher could 
get very angry, if we forgot to 'spell correctly'. - One of my class 
maids grew up in USA where his father was a teacher at Howard 
University. He came back and got the next lowest marks of all, though he 
was far much better speaking and writing English than our teacher. In 
English writing he got the '0' (zero) with a note that "...You are about 
hte worst example that I have ever seen in my life as teacher".:-)

It didn't get better when he came to high school where he had the same 
teacher as I, but in another class. Our teacher here was educated at 
Cambridge University ...huh... sorry - University of Cambridge.:-) - 
Here at the final examination he only got a middle mark, because the 
external examiner claimed the same as in our prime school days..-)

We have no longer any contact, but the latest I've heard of him is that 
he has been living in Canada for the last more than 40 years now...

Cheers, Erik Richard

Timothy Williams wrote:
> Thanks, everybody!
>
> I think that Hamid’s idea is the best.
>
> However I now know how to go through a text looking for a final
> -our that I will on occasion change to -or. Thanks, Ben!
>
>> Hamid Haji <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>> Timothy Williams <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>> People
>>>
>>> The good news is the publisher has accepted a book for publication. The bad news is I must Americanise - sorry, Americanize - the spelling.
>>>
>>> How do I find a word ending in -our and replace it with -or?
>> [...]
>>
>> Congratulations!
>> I suggest you change the language setting of the entire document from English (British) to English (U.S.).
>> Then let the spell checker do the “corrections”.

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