Hello. Some of you wonderful people aren't mad keen on our US spellings. So here's a Chrome extension to fix that
began life in London in 1994 and today has journalists and other staff all over the world, which is to say San Francisco, Sydney, Singapore, Berlin, and beyond.
As we added more writers and editors around the world, and reached more people globally – now about 40 million unique readers a year – across all sorts of time zones, it became necessary for logistical and professional reasons to agree on just one consistent style for the whole site. AfterWhy? Because it honestly reflects the true global nature of our readership. UK spelling may make us appear UK-only.
As an olive branch that passionate segment of our readership with a preference for the King's English, this vulture decided to create a Chrome browser extension to change the words in published articles from US to UK spellings., because I was going for subtly stupid in the hope of standing apart from the sprawling, unrepentant witlessness that is the internet's new normal. Also, the daft name serves as a reminder that the extension does not work all that well. But hey, it's free.
Really, I should have relied on a machine learning model to make more informed spelling changes. But then this wouldn't have been a weekend coding project. Feel free to submit improvements via GitHub.
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