# Uk Business English

British business English writing style for professional communications, polished...

- Repository: https://github.com/jezweb/claude-skills (1094 stars)
- Category: Writing
- License: MIT
- Last updated: 2026-10-09
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add jezweb/claude-skills --skill uk-business-english -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add jezweb/claude-skills --skill uk-business-english -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add jezweb/claude-skills --skill uk-business-english -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add jezweb/claude-skills --skill uk-business-english -g -a gemini-cli -y`
Claude Code plugin marketplace: `/plugin marketplace add jezweb/claude-skills`

## Description

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.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# 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.

The rest: https://github.com/jezweb/claude-skills/blob/HEAD/plugins/writing/skills/uk-business-english/SKILL.md