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Originally Posted by Fangles
Is there any way to select all epub (and maybe other) book types in calibre and do a search and replace on all words inside them?
In Australia, I want to put back vowels that some countries (  *cough* ) have stripped and fix common spelling mistakes in those regions. 
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Fangles - mate, it's probably not worth the effort because its not just the spelling that varies, it's also the grammar and idioms, see
Comparison of American and British English. The appalling grammar irritates me more than the spelling
It's easy enough to change the spelling. I know someone who uses Toxaris' ePub-Tools Word addin to convert ePubs to Word, she then uses its Search and Replace to replace
spilled with
spilt,
humor with
humour but not in humorously,
appall with
appal, but not in appalling, etc. Then she converts it back to ePub. But that doesn't fix the grammar or idioms - which she says doesn't bother her as much.
US English is primarily based on what was used in pre-Enlightment 16th century, 'tis said they talk funny because they skipped a good part of the Great Vowel Shift. UK English is primarily based on what was used in post-Enlightment 18th century, and it came under the influence of the widespread teaching of Latin in the 19th and early 20th century.
Aside: the UK government publishing bureaucrats want to ban the use of Latin abbreviations in their documents -- such as: e.g., etc., i.e., and so forth and so on. Hopefully people like Jacob Rees-Mogg (a.k.a the Member for the 18th century) will put the kybosh on that nonsense
I wish they'd ban 'so-called', 'going forward' and similar waste of breath and space phrases.
BR