Changing Spelling Dictionary

For years OS X has automatically corrected spelling using American spellings. Unfortunately that has changed in Snow Leopard (I just upgraded from Leopard) and I don't know how to switch back. It appears it has decided that I want British spellings because I am living in Australia. Not so, how do I change preferences for that so the computer corrects in Americanese?
I did try changing the language in Language/Keyboard but when I did that it changed calendar info to American (month first, day second, then year which is confusing since most of the world uses day, month, year) but I want to have regular date info with American spellings for corrections as I type.
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how do I change preferences for that so the computer corrects in Americanese?
Go to system preferences/language & text/language and make sure that English is at the top of the list.
Go to system preferences/language & text/text/spelling and make sure it says US English.
The Input Sources tab has nothing to do with spelling or dates.
Date info is determined in system preferences/language & text/formats.

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