I just changed my phone's text-to-speech settings to English (UK) because I use British English for writing anyway (I know, I'm weird, just prefer it--I do use American orthography at work because people just assume you can't spell otherwise), and now my briefs in the morning, midday, evening, etc. for weather and the news are a peppy British male voice rather than a hoarse, tired American one. I am so happy. What can I say, it's the small things.
On a side note, I have used British spellings for about 35 years of my 58 years of life. I read a lot of British books, watch a lot of British TV, it just seemed natural, and I'm very much an Anglophile, but one day recently, after being diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder level 1, it suddenly occurred to me that ultimately, that was the reason. It was a quirk of autism, not a pretentious thing (I never meant it that way, or to be different, and I had people ask that, which surprised me, because I hadn't even considered that). Yep. I't just that I'm a little weird and wired differently, what can I say.
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