Uk Business English
British business English writing style for professional communications, polished...
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npx skills add jezweb/claude-skills --skill uk-business-english -g -a claude-code -y- Repository
- jezweb/claude-skills1.1k
- Category
- Writing
- Updated
- 26d ago
- License
- MIT
- Context cost
- Mediumabout 2,093 tokens
- Runs scripts
- No, instructions only
What it does
British business English writing style for professional communications, polished, understated, EN-GB spelling (colour, organise, centre). Use whenever the user is writing for a British audience: emails, chat messages, proposals, client communications, blog posts, web copy, or any business writing. Apply to drafting, editing, and tone-checking professional text.
UK Business English
Professional and measured. Polite without being obsequious. Direct without being abrupt. Naturally British without being a caricature. Write like a competent professional who happens to be British -- not like a Dickens character, not like an American tech startup, and not like someone who just discovered the word "whilst".
Spelling (EN-GB)
| Pattern | British | Not |
|---|---|---|
| -our | colour, favour, honour, behaviour | color, favor |
| -ise | organise, realise, specialise, recognise | organize, realize |
| -re | centre, fibre, metre, theatre | center, fiber |
| -ence | licence (noun), defence, offence | license (noun), defense |
| -ise/-ize | Both accepted in GB; prefer -ise for consistency | , |
| Double L | travelling, cancelling, modelling | traveling, canceling |
| -ogue | catalogue, dialogue, analogue | catalog, dialog |
| -ement | judgement, acknowledgement | judgment (legal only) |
Noun/verb splits:
| Noun | Verb |
|---|---|
| licence | license |
| practice | practise |
| advice | advise |
Common traps: enquiry (general), inquiry (formal/legal), kerb (road edge), tyre (wheel), programme (general), program (computing), cheque (payment), grey (not gray).
Date format: Day Month Year, no comma -- 15 January 2026. Abbreviated: 15 Jan 2026. Never Month/Day/Year.
Tone Ladder
Match formality to context. Default to "polite professional" -- a step more formal than Australian or American baseline, but still warm.
