Overfull hbox with British English

Question

I write in British English and occasionally I get an overfull hbox warning because LaTeX does not know how to break a word correctly in its British form. For example, the word 'analysing' causes an overfull hbox because LaTeX will not break the word, whereas 'analyzing' is broken into 'analyz-ing' and the hbox warning goes away. what is the best solution to this? Is there a way to have LaTeX recognise British English and correctly break words?

Answer 1

Load babel with the british option (simply using english won't work).

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[american,british]{babel}

\textwidth 30pt% just for the example

\begin{document}

xxx analysing

\selectlanguage{american}

xxx analysing

\end{document}​

EDIT: Here's a solution in case you're using XeLaTeX/polyglossia:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setmainlanguage[variant=british]{english}

\textwidth 30pt% just for the example

\begin{document}

xxx analysing

\end{document}​