diff --git a/config/locales/activerecord.en.yml b/config/locales/activerecord.en.yml
index afc8f48e..cb5881a7 100644
--- a/config/locales/activerecord.en.yml
+++ b/config/locales/activerecord.en.yml
@@ -33,27 +33,27 @@ en:
       service:
         post_tag: "Tag"
       theme:
-        background_color: "Background color"
-        body_text: "Body text color"
-        dark_color: "Dark color"
-        dark_text: "Dark text color"
-        danger_color: "Danger color"
-        danger_text: "Danger text color"
-        info_color: "Info color"
-        info_text: "Info text color"
-        input_color: "Input color"
-        input_text: "Input text color"
-        light_color: "Light color"
-        light_text: "Light text color"
-        muted_text: "Muted text color"
-        primary_color: "Primary color"
-        primary_text: "Primary text color"
-        raised_accent: "Raised accent color"
-        raised_background: "Raised background color"
-        success_color: "Success color"
-        success_text: "Success text color"
-        warning_color: "Warning color"
-        warning_text: "Warning text color"
+        background_color: "Background colour"
+        body_text: "Body text colour"
+        dark_color: "Dark colour"
+        dark_text: "Dark text colour"
+        danger_color: "Danger colour"
+        danger_text: "Danger text colour"
+        info_color: "Info colour"
+        info_text: "Info text colour"
+        input_color: "Input colour"
+        input_text: "Input text colour"
+        light_color: "Light colour"
+        light_text: "Light text colour"
+        muted_text: "Muted text colour"
+        primary_color: "Primary colour"
+        primary_text: "Primary text colour"
+        raised_accent: "Raised accent colour"
+        raised_background: "Raised background colour"
+        success_color: "Success colour"
+        success_text: "Success text colour"
+        warning_color: "Warning colour"
+        warning_text: "Warning text colour"
       user:
         created_at: "Account created at"
         current_password: "Current password"
@@ -86,11 +86,11 @@ en:
       services/twitter:
         post_tag: "Automatically append a tag to your shared answers. A # symbol is not automatically prepended."
       theme:
-        danger_color: "Color used for errors or critical actions like deleting something."
-        info_color: "Color used for informational popups or messages."
-        primary_color: "The primary/brand color of the site, used for navigation, links, etc."
-        success_color: "Color used for messages if something went through successfully."
-        warning_color: "Color used for warnings if something non-critical has happened."
+        danger_color: "Colour used for errors or critical actions like deleting something."
+        info_color: "Colour used for informational popups or messages."
+        primary_color: "The primary/brand colour of the site, used for navigation, links, etc."
+        success_color: "Colour used for messages if something went through successfully."
+        warning_color: "Colour used for warnings if something non-critical has happened."
   helpers:
     submit:
       user:
diff --git a/config/locales/views.en.yml b/config/locales/views.en.yml
index c99ba635..eba04ea0 100644
--- a/config/locales/views.en.yml
+++ b/config/locales/views.en.yml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 en:
-  language: "English (US)"
+  language: "English"
   about:
     index:
       subtitle: "Ask questions, give answers and learn more about your friends."
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ en:
       questions:
         header: "Receive and ask questions"
         body_html: |
-          <p>After registering on %{app_name} share your unique link to your profile and 
+          <p>After registering on %{app_name} share your unique link to your profile and
           receive questions in your inbox to answer
           them right away.</p>
 
@@ -32,12 +32,12 @@ en:
           <p class="text-muted">Not sure if it's a favorite, but at the moment only
           <b>Twitter</b> is supported.</p>
       customize:
-        header: "Customize your experience"
+        header: "Customise your experience"
         body_html: |
-          <p>Make your %{app_name} profile your own with the ability to set a custom 
+          <p>Make your %{app_name} profile your own with the ability to set a custom
           profile picture and header image.</p>
 
-          <p>Going a step further, you can customize all colors of
+          <p>Going a step further, you can customise all colours of
           %{app_name} to your own liking. Don't like purple? Make it blue, red or green!</p>
 
           <p>For a quick demonstration, you can try this out here with a few presets:</p>
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ en:
           reset: "Reset"
       open_source:
         header: "Open Source"
-        body: "You heard it right! %{app_name} and all of it's core components are open source! Everyone can help and improve the service!"
+        body: "%{app_name} and all of its core components are open source. Everyone can help and improve the service."
       no_ads:
         header: "No Ads"
         body: "We don't like them ourselves, really. They make websites slow and are (for the most part) annoying. So there's none!"
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ en:
     answerbox:
       read: "Read the entire answer"
       answered: "%{hide} %{user}" # resolves into "Answered by %{user}"
-      hide: "Answered by"      
+      hide: "Answered by"
     questionbox:
       title: "Ask something!"
       required: "This user does not want to get asked by strangers.  Why don't you %{signup}?"
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ en:
     index:
       heading: "You're leaving %{app_name}"
       subheading: "The link you are visiting is not trusted by %{app_name}"
-      body: Never enter your passwords or other private information on an untrusted website. %{app_name} will only ever ask for your password on a site that is on the domain %{hostname}
+      body: "Never enter your passwords or other private information on an untrusted website. %{app_name} will only ever ask for your password on a site that is on the domain %{hostname}"
       url: "URL:"
       confirm: "I understand the risk, proceed!"
   modal:
@@ -242,12 +242,12 @@ en:
       tab:
         list:
           title: "Lists"
-        create: 
+        create:
           title: "Create new list"
           action: "Create list"
           placeholder: "List name"
       item:
-        members: 
+        members:
           zero: "0 members"
           one: "1 member"
           other: "%{count} members"
@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ en:
     password:
       title: "Save account changes"
     ban:
-      title: "Ban Control Center"
+      title: "Ban Control Centre"
       controls:
         reason: "Reason"
         is_banned: "Ban?"
@@ -393,7 +393,7 @@ en:
         title: "Export"
         heading: "Export your data"
         body_html: |
-          <p>The data is inside a <code>.tar.gz</code> archive and available in three formats: YAML, JSON, and XML. 
+          <p>The data is inside a <code>.tar.gz</code> archive and available in three formats: YAML, JSON, and XML.
           The archive also contains a copy of your profile picture and header picture in all sizes.</p>
           <p>Please note that you can only export your data once a week. Exporting your data
           will take a while, so please be patient. You will receive a question once exporting
@@ -469,8 +469,8 @@ en:
         heading: "Theming"
         lead: "Welcome to the Theme Editor!"
         body_html: |
-          <p>Here you'll be able to modify your Retrospring experience by adjusting all available colors.
-          To further help you with adjusting needs, there are a few example elements using the specified colors, and sections will include
+          <p>Here you'll be able to modify your Retrospring experience by adjusting all available colours.
+          To further help you with adjusting needs, there are a few example elements using the specified colours, and sections will include
           descriptions on their general use on the site!</p>
           <p>And with that: <b>Happy Theming!</b>
         delete: "Delete Theme"
@@ -478,10 +478,10 @@ en:
           heading: "General"
           body: "Here you'll find general page values that are basically visible all across the page."
         colors:
-          heading: "Colors"
+          heading: "Colours"
           body: |
-            Colors you can find used on the site. The names of the colors usually describe the context.
-            The "text" colors for all styles represent the color that text on top of these colors has.
+            Colours you can find used on the site. The names of the colours usually describe the context.
+            The "text" colours for all styles represent the colour that text on top of these colours has.
           alert:
             example: "A simple %{type} alert — check it out!"
             type:
@@ -568,7 +568,7 @@ en:
         title: "Inbox for %{user}"
     moderationbox:
       reported_html: "%{user} reported a %{content} %{time} ago"
-      reason: 
+      reason:
         heading: "Reason:"
         none: "No reason provided"
       view: "View reported %{content}"