American Spellings

[NigelSutherland]

When I'm writing titles, descriptions, and keywords, my computer changes American spellings to English. Posterize becomes Posterise; Color becomes Colour, etc. 
I was wondering whether the Zazzle search engine was smart enough to recognise alternative spellings for when customers use them?

[Barbara]

As curious about this as you are, I ran a quick search on "colour wheel" and found both spellings being represented. I assume the same can be found with "ize" vs. "ise." I doubt the same might be said for alternate words such as stove burners vs. hob.

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[Pádraig]

Hi @NigelSutherland,

I can't replicate this on my end so I'm unsure why this may occur. Are you posting on the .com domain? Can you provide a screenshot or link to a product etc.? Perhaps other Creators who have experienced a similar issue may be able to help you out too.

Thanks,

Pádraig 🙂

[Barbara]

Nigel, do you have a spell checker installed in your browser? If so, do you have it set for British English?

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[Cat]

As @Barbara said, it's probably a browser setting. But I too would like to know if Zazzle's search algorithm will recognize the alternative spellings. Like if I'm designing something that's gray - do I need to put both "gray" and "grey" in the keywords, or will it figure that out on its own? 

[Barbara]

@Cat  I seem to remember the question coming up in the old forum and that the answer was, yes, either spelling will bring up gray or grey.

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[SimplyDesigned]

If it gives you that little red squiggly line under the word trying to say it's misspelled, you should be able to right click and "add to dictionary" maybe so it will recognize it as a word and leave it be. 

[NigelSutherland]

It's not me I'm thinking of, its potential customers. I was wondering if THEY'LL get the result, regardless of which spelling they've used. I'm hoping so. Google search always recognises/recognizes alternatives, so hopefully Zazzle does too!

[Barbara]

Nigel, just to be on the safe side, log out of Zazzle and then run a variety of searches using alternative spellings. I think you'll find it doesn't matter which spelling you use, but seeing it for yourself is the best way to answer your question.

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[Lais]

oh, I understand your question now. Well, the easiest way to know it is by using the Zazzle search with both words (in two separate tabs) and comparing the results.

It will depend on the words. For color vs colour, we have:

https://www.zazzle.com/s/color+posters ---> 164,303 results
https://www.zazzle.com/s/colour+posters ---> 15,183 results

So, yeah, the algorithm doesn't recognize them as the same.

However, for watercolor vs watercolour, we have:
https://www.zazzle.com/s/watercolor+notebooks ---> 31,408 results
https://www.zazzle.com/s/watercolour+notebooks ---> 31,447 results

So we do not know if it's considered the same or if it happens that almost all designs with "watercolor" also have "watercolour" as a tag and vice versa. 

[Barbara]

Wow! The difference in results for color poster as opposed to colour poster is significant!

By the way, my browser's spellchecker claims "colour" is misspelled. LOL

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