Find inconsistent writing conventions: British vs American spelling mix, number formatting (1,000 vs 1.000), capitalization, date formats, and hyphenated terms used both ways.
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Use as a final-pass check before submitting. Particularly useful when multiple authors have contributed.
Style guides (Chicago, AP, MLA) cover many more rules. This tool is the quick mechanical check; full style enforcement needs an editor.
The checker scans for 29 of the most common British/American spelling pairs and flags any text that contains both spellings (or only the wrong-locale spelling).
It also looks for mixed number formatting (1,000 vs 1.000 vs 1 000), mixed date formats, hyphenation variants ("e-mail" vs "email"), and words capitalized inconsistently.
Use US or UK locale selectors to decide which spelling family should be considered the canonical one.
British vs. American spelling mix, mixed number formats (1,000 vs 1.000), inconsistent capitalization, hyphenation (email vs e-mail), and mixed date formats.
No — it surfaces them. Fixing manually keeps you in control of style.
29 of the most common UK/US pairs. We deliberately skip rare or context-dependent pairs.
Input
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Output
Consistency: 70 / 100 — 3 issues (colour/color, e-mail/email, two date formats).
"Colour" and "color" both appear, "e-mail" and "email" both appear, and one date is DD/MM/YYYY while the other is ISO. Each distinct issue costs 10 points.
This checks for the same thing written more than one way in a single document: British against American spelling, hyphenation that changes between instances, capitalisation of the same term that varies, thousands separators that switch between commas, dots and spaces, and dates written in more than one format.
None of these is an error in isolation — both spellings of "organise" are correct, and both are defensible house style. Mixing them within one document is the defect, because it signals that nobody read the whole thing.
Inconsistency degrades trust below the level of conscious attention. A reader who sees "e-mail" and "email" on the same page rarely stops to identify it, but their confidence in the document drops. That effect is disproportionate to how trivial each instance is, which is what makes an automated pass worthwhile.
The most common source is text assembled from several authors or pasted from other documents, which is exactly when nobody has read the result end to end. Run this last, after the content is settled, since editing reintroduces variants.
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