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Delete English dialects from spelling

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johannes
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How do I remove the dialects from the long list of english spelchecing. I'm only interested in the origianl (British) englis.

How do I remove the dialects from the long list of english spelchecing. I'm only interested in the origianl (British) englis.
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George Kitsoukakis
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Hi

You can go to Menu > Settings > General and scroll down to Language

In the drop-down menu click "Select more languages to add..." and

Use the Move Up and Move Down buttons to Remove a language from the list

Click OK to save your changes

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cor-el
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This is likely because your Linux distro has installed dictionaries for all those languages and Firefox has detected them and offers them. You would have to remove/uninstall them from Linux to prevent Firefox from detecting them.

You can check these locations for globally installed dictionaries:

  • /usr/share/hunspell/
  • /usr/share/myspell/

See also the DICPATH environment variable. Some of these dictionaries can have a underscore (en_US) instead of a dash (en-US) in the language selector.

cor-el
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Note that dictionaries you add appear in Settings under "Dictionaries", under Languages you find installed language packs that provide translations for strings in the user interface.

johannes
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Thanks, yeah that was it. I remember being here before but Mozille still has not fixed this. Interestingly in /usr/share/hunspell I see:

total 2180 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 3091 24. Jul 2025 en_AU.aff -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 554536 24. Jul 2025 en_AU.dic -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 3091 24. Jul 2025 en_CA.aff -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 551783 24. Jul 2025 en_CA.dic -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 27471 24. Jul 2025 en_GB.aff -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 527341 24. Jul 2025 en_GB.dic -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 3091 24. Jul 2025 en_US.aff -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 551962 24. Jul 2025 en_US.dic


and in spell check I see:

  • English (Australia)
  • English (Canada)
  • English (United Kingdom)
  • English (United States)
  • Add Dictionaries..

SO the dic and the aff files are something different?

cor-el
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The .dic files are the actual dictionaries with the words. The .aff files store the affixes that specify the possible variations of the words. So they both form a pair and both are needed to make a dictionary work properly.

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