Spell-checker keeps changing to US English when system language order is changed

When I switch the order of preferred system languages in System Preferences' Language and Text section, the spell-checker's language often changes to 'US English', even though it's disabled on my computer as I prefer the British spell-checker. My current preferred language order is 'British English', followed by 'English' and 'German'. US English is completely disabled as a system language. When I go and check the 'spelling' option in the Language and Text panel, the spelling is set to US English (even if it had British English set before, which it has done since I initially set up my language options) and I have to see unsightly red underlines under words like colour and realise. Whilst this is easy to change I would rather not have to constantly change it back to British every time I do this. Does anyone else experience this, and is there a way to prevent the US English zombie from rising again?
I'm using OS X 10.8.4.

fatal exception wrote:
generic English (which is just a general 'English' category when selecting a system language; US English is its own separate setting that you can use to explicitly prefer American localisations in software
It may be a general category, but in practice I have never seen a piece a software where English will give any other localization than American English. Have you?
I doubt that switching OS languages is something many people do more than once. Still, you are right that it should go back to the original setting. Let Apple know via
http://www.apple.com/feedback

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