> The first question you'll be asked in response to a bug report will be > what does the same spell-checking program does when invoked outside of > Emacs with the same text. Right! Thanks. I did a test. I created a file with the word regularize which should be regularise in the british spelling. I run ispell -d british test.txt And ispell found the error but did not propose a change. So this is the fault of the wordlist.