Not sure how to fix this properly but debian-ispell resets the variables I set for ispell-dictionary-alist. Really since I use hunspell I don't care about the default dictionaries at all so I'm fine with removing from startup but not sure where this occurs. Somewhere in the site startup I would have to remove debian-ispell.el but not sure where to do this.

 The only way I have figured around this is setting ispell-dictionary-local-alist but then I get thrown an error on emacs startup. Is there a hook into debian-ispell or how do I go about removing it altogether?? I am fine just setting my own dictionaries and not using the system based ones since using hunspell anyway.

Cheers,
Jeff