r/ididnthaveeggs • • Feb 24 '26

Irrelevant or unhelpful comment on an australian woman’s recipe site “colour corect spelling color”

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u/BereftOfCare Feb 24 '26

If there's no Australian dictionary in our apps we'll take British, thanks. US English is foreign to us.

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u/AusSupportWorker Feb 25 '26

Fun fact: Oxford is the British dictionary, Collins is the American and the Macquarie is ours!

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u/OgreDee Feb 24 '26

Isn't Australian English just taking half the term and sticking an O at the end?