I’ve just had a thought that perhaps people who come across my blog, website, Etsy shop, Flickr account and other places might wonder if I have some terrible problem when it comes to spelling ‘jewellery’ (or is that ‘jewelry’?).

It will, of course, get lost to the mists of time, but I’ll do a bit of explaining here as I hate to imagine people thinking I can’t spell!

Unfortunately, I’m starting to sell and promote work online in a field which has two different spellings in English, depending on where you’re from. The Americans at least (and perhaps some other English speakers too?) spell it ‘jewelry’, while the British and Australians use what I prefer to think of as the correct (oooh - controversial!) spelling of ‘jewellery’.

Given that people are going to be searching online for work like mine using both terms I’ve made a decision to use a smattering of both in whatever I do.I probably lean a bit more towards ‘jewelry’ in titles and the like because I know that’s going to be the dominant term used - even British English spellers are likely to use American spellings when looking for things online as there are frequently a lot more results (well, I do this anyway).

When I take over the English-speaking world I’ll be sure to make everyone spell the word with more letters as it looks more elegant, but for now I will make certain that all my bases are covered!So I can spell - honest.