Change system wide spelling checker ???

evidently OS X has a system wide spelling checker
I have set my region correctly but see no place to adjust the spelling checker.
It is by default to American English and I want to change it to British or Australian/New Zealand English what ever options are available. Or do we all have to spell American?

Hello
Open System Preferences, International. Click on the Languages tab.
Select Australian or British English, or what you prefer, so that it appears in the list. The choices are found on the lower right hand side : Order for sorted lists.
Make sure your selected choice is at the top of the list.
Note the caveat:
+Changes take effect in the Finder the next time you log in.... and in Applications the next time you open them.+
Open a new TextEdit document and you will see the change reflected in the spelling checking.

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I seem to remember that the first ever time I noticed the freeze was when I was working in the Mail application.
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