WaterSums and English spelling

Have you ever been irritated by spelling? For those of us unfortunate enough to care about it, spelling is a tricky subject. WaterSums is developed in Australia and the spelling used is English Australian. If you find any spelling or grammatical errors in the website or software, please let us know - we care about these things.

Since we are using Australian spelling, you can expect to hear about 'colour', 'behaviour', 'analysing' and various other things that may seem strange to other eyes. Australia's history shows close links with England and our spelling and many of our attitudes also reveal these close ties.

My most common concessions to simplification or rationalisation of spelling is with words like 'program' or 'dialog', for which I far prefer the shortened versions.

Oh, that English spelling were consistent within itself, let alone between different countries. How could 'enough' rhyme with 'snuff' when the spelling is so different? Or how can 'caught', 'thought' and 'sort' sound the same?