English Spelling Mod

[draco963]

This mod has been created to change the spelling of all the "Webster-ized" words to their more traditional Oxford spellings. You might also call this mod "English for non-Americans".

So: the goal is to change the spellings of all those words Webster decided needed modifying back to their original spellings. During the course of this project, I also found a number of plain spelling mistakes, and a few errors in grammar. All are listed below.

International words & place-names are very difficult to check, so I have, in most cases, left them as is. The few that I have changed were basically already known to me.

In the case of words that could be disputed (like checkered -> chequered (meaning a pattern of squares)) I have gone with the more traditional spelling. This has happened only very rarely.

Please find the mod here.

Here are the lists of changed items:

Spoiler Websterisms :

armor		->	armour
axeman/men	->	axman/men
behavior	->	behaviour
canceled	->	cancelled
checkered	->	chequered
color		->	colour
colosseum/s	->	coliseum/colisea
commited	->	committed
condolensces	->	condolences
defense		->	defence
enrollment	->	enrolment
favor		->	favour
flavor		->	flavour
gray		->	grey
guerilla	->	guerrilla
harbor		->	harbour
honor		->	honour
jewelers	->	jewellers
jewelry		->	jewellery
kilometer	->	kilometre
labor		->	labour
maneuver	->	manoeuvre
marshaled	->	marshalled
mold		->	mould
neighbor	->	neighbour
occured		->	occurred
rumor		->	rumour
sanitarium	->	sanatorium
skeptical	->	sceptical
splendor	->	splendour
theater		->	theatre
vigor		->	vigour

This list, I am afraid, is not complete. I suffered an unexpected reboot of my system (damned Windows update! ) while making the changes, and had only partial notes actually written down. I will update this list as I catch changes not already written here.

Spoiler Spelling & grammatical errors :

SPELLING
characterists	  ->	characteristics
Dyansty		  ->	Dynasty
warefare	  ->	warfare


GRAMMAR
be be  		  ->	be
to to  		  ->	to
who [accusative]  ->	whom

This list, I am afraid, is not complete. I suffered an unexpected reboot of my system (damned Windows update! ) while making the changes, and had only partial notes actually written down. I will update this list as I catch changes not already written here.

Spoiler Proper- & Place-names :

Shereborne	->	Sherborne
Strassburg	->	Strasbourg
Malinese	->	Malian
Ramesses	->	Ramses

Spoiler Exceptions :

The quote of the West Point Military Academy has been left with the spelling of "Honor", as it is a direct quote of an American institution.

 

[draco963]

Reserved against possible future use.

 

[Derf]

Found a tiny, single little bug.
In the file 'CIV4GameText_Warlords_Civilopedia' the very last </TEXT> line is missing it's slash, reading <TEXT> instead, thus causing the game to complain and not load the text files correctly.

 

[gps]

Some minor issues I noticed - if you want to correct text mistakes:
- In the German civiliziation text it say "[realpolitik]" in brackets - which was taken over from Civ 3 where it set the word in italics. Does not work here, so the "[]" look strange and don't make sense.
- Another Civ3 copy-issue: "Land of the Four Quarters" in the Inca text should be in quotation marks, not with question mark.
- Mali civilization has some "?" instead of "-". Has been corrected in BTS, but not in Vanilla and Warlords.
- Philip I of Macedon in Greek civilization text should be Philip II.