What a bizarre comment! Since you already know what spellings work for me, which of the other locale packages, in your esteemed opinion, should I be using to make sense?

>I want spellcheckers to default to American

Literally in your comment you say you want American English spelling. Which Canadian English is not. Every point I made was directly in response to what you wrote.

> Literally in your comment you say you want American English spelling. Which Canadian English is not.

English orthography does not have a binary distinction from one dialect to another. It is absurd to talk about them in such a binary manner.

American spellings are gaining a lot of ground though, especially if you are not writing in a formal context. Maybe en-ca is accepting both variants?

this is correct

> a weird mixture

Nothing weird about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_spelling

Canada doesn't follow the etymological principles behind Oxford spelling, though. For instance, it uses "analyze" rather than "analyse", even though this comes from a Greek sigma (unlike the -ιζω verbs which become -ize in OED). At least in common use, as well, "programme", for instance, is rare, although sometimes found.

Canadians themselves are also pretty inconsistent personally and often use American spellings, especially outside of the -our/-or and -re/-er series, which are the most well-known differences. Part of this is probably attribuable to the fact that Canadian media used American spellings until the 90s.

Canadians also may be found using hyperbritish forms proscribed by the OED, such as "honourary" for "honorary" and so on.

It’s a weird mixture when both colour and color are accepted spellings for the same word.

Does it bother you that the dictionary has both grey and gray?

Yup. It’s one of those “shit or get off the pot” type things.

Hehehehehe (laughs in German)

Well, I see the trend going the other way with google ditching millions for lakhs on YouTube...