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"Graham Smith" <myotisone@gmail.com> writes:

> Can someone confirm for me that I need to install Cygwin to get spell
> checking on Emacs running in Windows.

No, that isn't necessarily the case.  You could use a native Windows
port of ispell or aspell.

I can't recall which ISPELL port I used, but Googling for "ispell for
windows" or "aspell for windows" looks promising.