Safari spell checker

Hi all, could someone help me with something that's probably staring me straight in the face anyway?
I want to change the spell checking in Safari from English US to English UK, and for the life of me can't remember how to do it.
ta very muchley!

Hi Sinisterish!
That is a system-wide setting.
Go to System Preferences/International/Language
Drag 'British English' to the top of the list.
Job done!

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