Spell Program Or Programme

Programme is a primarily british spelling of program.

Spell program or programme. In american english program is the correct spelling. American english always uses program. British english uses programme unless referring to computers.

The word program was predominant in the uk until the 19th century when the spelling programme became more common largely as a result of influence from french which has the same word programme. Programme is a british english spelling variant of program. Australians have for several decades been moving steadily to adopt program.

This spelling is standard in british english with one exception. In australian english program and programme are both acceptable. In the sense of software program is preferred in both american and british english.

In british english programme is the preferred spelling although program is often used in computing contexts. Australian english recommends program for official usage but programme is still in common use. Since the 20th century program has also referred to computer code and in this case both the british and american spellings are the same.