Canadian English on Apple products

Question

Apple is an American company. As many of you probably know, Canadian English is different from American English, and closer to British English (e.g. colour instead of color). I use iWork and Microsoft Office for Mac (along with many other applications on OS X), and OS X, nor my iPhone, have an option to switch to Canadian English.

Yes, you can select Canadian English as an input language in the language bar, but any program that uses the central OS X spell checking (from Mail to Office to iWork to Chrome) will check words against an American English dictionary.

I know asking a question that involves an iPhone component is borderline off-topic, but I know on my iPhone I can select British English, but that turns my $ into £ and has a few other weird spelling quirks.

Simple question: Is it possible to make OS X _{(and maybe the iPhone)} use a Canadian English dictionary for its spell checking? Because British English just doesn't cut it anymore. Thanks!

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EDIT: Rearranging the order of languages in International Preferences seems to only affect the Finder, not any other application. I will leave Canadian English at the top of the list.

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EDIT #2: Chealion's solution works for all the programs that use Cocoa for spell checking, and that covers most of the apps I run. I would suggest doing that in conjunction with rearranging the language order in International Preferences (in Tiger/Leopard) or follow ghoppe's advice for Snow Leopard.

Answer 1

In Mac OS X 10.6:

1. Open up System Preferences
2. Choose the Language and Text Preference Pane
3. Choose the Text tab
4. For Spelling, choose Canadian English

Alternatively the instructions for 10.5 and earlier still works as well:

In Mac OS X 10.5 and earlier it's not very obvious:

1. Open up a Cocoa application such as TextEdit, Pages, etc.
2. Control/Right Click on some text and choose "Show Spelling and Grammar"
3. At the bottom there will be a selection of dictionaries - change it to Canadian English

This will only affect applications that use the OS X Dictionary. (eg. Safari, but not Firefox)

Answer 2

System Preferences > Language and Text > Text Tab

There is a spelling popup on the right that says "Spelling" where you can select the dictionary. There is a Canadian English option available. (Snow Leopard tested.)

On my system, I use "Automatic by Language" as the setting, and Canadian English in the language bar, and get the proper spelling for colour/labour etc. in spell checks (cheques, if you're talking about money. HEHEHE.)

Edit: As for iWork, you have to make sure the proper language is selected in your styles. In Pages, for instance, there is a "Canadian English" setting in the text panel, under the "More" tab.

Edit #2 OK, so you don't use Snow Leopard (if your system can handle it, get it! $30 is a bargain.) Here's another option.

Install cocoaspell and a canadian english dictionary is available on the aspell ftp site.