uk-business-english
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.
npx skills add jezweb/claude-skills --skill uk-business-english --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# 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)
- Spelling (EN-GB)
- Tone Ladder
- Sign-off Ranking
- Avoid List
- Americanisms
- Forced Britishisms
- Writing Principles
- Examples
- Status update to existing client
- Delivering a quote
- Saying no to a request
- Context Rules
What does the uk-business-english skill do?
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.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add jezweb/claude-skills --skill uk-business-english --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From jezweb/claude-skills, a repository with 954 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.