Personality

Just to clarify, the engine converts non-American spelling in preprocessing, but you still can use the non-American spellings in keyphrases with a raw tag if you really feel the need to. I actually have a couple of those myself.

However, a)not recommended for beginners and b)there's no reason to use those unless you want your bot to make some observation about how it's spelled. Example:

AndAliceSays: any favourite bands?
Pete Puma: Oh, you put one of those 'U's in favorite. Are you a Canadian, limey, kiwi, or Aussie?

As far as using them in responses, it really doesn't make any difference.

what is a limey and a kiwi and an aussie, if you don't mund my asking?

Aussie's got to be Australian.

I would guess that kiwi means from New Zealand, and limey would be a Brit.

A kiwi is someone from New Zealand. A limey is either a British sailor or an English person. Yes, an aussie is an Australian.

Hey, The 'Canadian'..We have Nufies, French Canuks and Canuks... don't ya love us, eh?

Pete uses "Canuck" as well, but I added a plugin to mix it up when I saw Brother Jerome's are you a Canuck (re) keyphrase. I can't make life too easy for Psimagus.

i'm pretty sure south africans also have a similar accent

My senior year of college, there was a guy on my wing named Donovan who was from South Africa. His accent was kind of like the British accent, but I could tell the difference. He was fanatical about Rugby.

Seth Efricens, yeys, the vewels er elweys fermed en the beck ev the throet. *koff* Always hurts to try to speak with an Afrikaaner accent.

That's hilarious. You're a clever one.

I met a linguist once, who could tell you where you were born,(to what neighborhood) and most places you had lived, by having you say just a few phrases. It was spooky.