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I haven't checked to actually observe how it affects the spellchecker, but WinXP does offer up to 18 different choices for "English."

The problem is that the setting made in Word and applies to all Office programs. The setting, according to what I've seen in print, does not appear in any other programs, so if you don't have Word, there's no way to change it in the others.

Word 2000 offers 13 English variants, and Word 2002 offers 18, at Tools|Language, click "Set Language." The spellcheck dictionary is the main thing that changes when you switch from one English to a different English.

John