Translating to the american...

Does anyone know of a swap-table or equivalent that will allow me to swap the english spellings within a chunk of text for americanized spellings?

I've got a project where I'm building a CMS within a website and the client wants the US to see americanized spellings, even though we'll be populating the website with "english" spellings.

All the text is going into a db table, so I was thinking to save a duplicate copy of the text in each instance, rather than translating "on the fly" as the page is served.

But so far, although I've found some generic "rules" for altering the spellings (which naturally enough have exceptions...), I've yet to find anything even remotely resembling a definitive list which could actually be usable for a project like this.

Can anyone help?
(if it helps at all, we're building in php).

Probably not the format you are looking for, but this is generally good, if only slightly out of date...
Divided by a Common Language: A Guide to British and American English: Amazon.co.uk: Christpher Davies: Books

It has a few specific pages devoted to US/UK spelling discrepancies that might be helpfut in populating your table...

Put the text into word, highlight the text and set the language to English US. Spell check and accept the revised spellings.

Wot he said...once you have the list, a custom dictionary could be chosen in preferences depending upon which way you are translating...

Originally Posted by go_slow

Put the text into word, highlight the text and set the language to English US. Spell check and accept the revised spellings.

I'm looking to make a totally automated system within the php CMS.



Cheers all, I've finally found a swap-table.