American Spelling

[klorpa]

Summary

Interface "Adjusts spelling to use American English"

Purpose of change

Game is set in America.

Describe the solution

Describe alternatives you've considered

Testing

Additional context

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Spell checker encountered unrecognized words in the in-game text added in this pull request. See below for details.

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This alert is automatically generated. You can simply disregard if this is inaccurate, or (optionally) you can also add the new words to tools/spell_checker/dictionary.txt so they will not trigger an alert next time.

Hints for adding a new word to the dictionary

• If the word is normally in all lowercase, such as the noun word or the verb does, add it in its lower-case form; if the word is a proper noun, such as the surname George, add it in its initial-caps form; if the word is an acronym or has special letter case, such as the acronym CDDA or the unit mW, add it by preserving the case of all the letters. A word in the dictionary will also match its initial-caps form (if the word is in all lowercase) and all-uppercase form, so a word should be added to the dictionary in its normal letter case even if used in a different letter case in a sentence.
• For a word to be added to the dictionary, it should either be a real, properly-spelled modern American English word, a foreign loan word (including romanized foreign names), or a foreign or made-up word that is used consistently and commonly enough in the game. Intentional misspelling (including eye dialect) of a word should not be added unless it has become a common terminology in the game, because while someone may have a legitimate use for it, another person may spell it that way accidentally.

[Psithief]

I'll note that it's far more feasible to automatically translate from British English to American English due to all of the words that the former makes spelling distinctions for, such as:

• [UK] metre (unit of measurement), meter (verb) → [US] meter
• [UK] tyre (wheel), tire (fatigue) → [US] tire

[I-am-Erk]

You're editing things like comments and changelogs here, I don't really think you should be doing that

[Maleclypse]

I've adjusted out any non player facing text where we are less concerned with following American spellings. The rest is good to go. Thank you!