# AI writing in British English, as standard

You've told the model to use British English. It still writes like it's from Ohio.

Spelling is the easy half

"Use British English" fixes organise, colour, whilst. Fine. Job done, apparently.

Except it isn't done. The model swaps -ize for -ise and calls it a day, then hands you "I'm excited to share" and three exclamation marks in a row. That's not British. That's American enthusiasm with a UK spellcheck bolted on.

Register is the tell

Here's the thing: British English isn't a spelling list. It's a whole different relationship with confidence, understatement, and how much you're allowed to sound pleased with yourself.

  1. Americans say "amazing results." You say "not bad, all things considered."
  2. Americans open with the good news. You bury it, politely, on paragraph two.
  3. Americans use exclamation marks. You use "quite."

A spelling toggle can't fake that. A voice profile can, because it's not guessing at "British", it's measuring how you actually write.

UK English as a setting, your English as the profile

ScriptGrain runs UK English as a first-class setting at generation, not a find-and-replace pass afterwards. That handles the accent.

Then it goes further. It runs a two-pass stylometric analysis across 45 attributes of your actual writing: sentence rhythm, contraction rate, hedging, how often you reach for "whilst" versus "while", whether you undersell or oversell. If your English says organise and means it, understates and means that too, the profile captures it and enforces it on every draft after.

Every draft you generate comes back with a voice-match score, so you're not guessing whether it landed.

Sterling pricing, no card required

Build one profile free: one full analysis, no card, see what it actually finds.

Priced in sterling. Run by a UK company. British English isn't a checkbox we added, it's the standard we built on.

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You'll see your 45 attributes laid out plainly: where you hedge, where you understate, where you'd never in a million years say "I'm thrilled to announce."

Fair enough if you want to check it against something you've already written. That's exactly what it's for.

Spelling was never the hard part. Sounding like yourself, in your own English, is.

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