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Thanks for your help Kovid. I hadn't heard of the \b boundary before and this is very useful.
I found I can edit the saved searches file in notepad++ and then reload it without problem.
There are a at least a couple of thousand words spelled differently in US v. GB English and of course they have capitalisations and plurals.
I am going to save the words I come across in common usage as individual saved searches and add to the file as I go along.
I will run the searches at the start of an editing session and then use the spell checker to find any words not in my file.
At the moment I am ignoring words that have double letters in GB but not in US - too many of them.
(Incidentally the words check and checker are a problem because in GB we have cheque and chequer as well as check and checker - can't think of a solution!)
My general find-replace is now:
\b([Oo])dor([s]?)\b
\1dour\2
This seems to work OK.
Once I have built up a sizable list of words I will post the file somewhere for anyone to use.
Thanks again - moldy
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