Well, I never. You'll never guess what...
I've been disgruntled at the fact that I hadn't got the new version of GMail, nor the IMAP option. In fact I set up a gmail account for handling bounces that used to come into our office, and I was dissapointed to see that this account gets the new look + IMAP while my long serving account still didn't have it.
This morning I installed firefox 3 beta and it made me think that I should have a go at finding out why my gmail account isn't upgraded.
I read this on the help forums...
I'm in the UK and simply had to set my account to US English, which is mildly annoying, but it works.
Three questions spring to mind, Why Google? Why? and Why didn't you tell us?
I hope the answer to the first two aren't that you're language nazis, I'm going to spell licence and colour and analyse and optimise the way I always have no matter what functionality you withhold from me. Actually I'm going to use IMAP and perform daring feats of spelling without the aid of a safety net.
Sadly Firefox 3 beta2 doesn't have an "English UK" spellchecker either, its only a beta after all, so if I lapse into american-ism its because the fiendish plot is succeeding.