ispell select Emacs dictionary on Debian (was: Re: Create a complete/huge dictionary for aspell.)

[Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>]

>> Both ‘ispell-local-dictionary’ and ‘ispell-dictionary’ are
>> nil on my side
>
> Do
>
>   M-x ispell-change-dictionary RET SPC
>
> to see what dictionaries are installed.

Now I start to think it doesn't work for me either!

I did

  $ sudo apt-get --install-suggests install iamerican-insane
  $ sudo select-default-ispell

and selected american-insane (the UI even mentions Emacs BTW)

but the dictionary wouldn't turn up with

  M-x ispell-change-dictionary RET SPC

then I did

  $ sudo apt-get --install-suggests install iamerican-\*

and it installed all of it, I did 'ispell-change-dictionary'
again and all the smaller alternatives were now there, but
I picked -insane anyway, and what happened is, now "american"
turns up as an alternative in Emacs.

Is this as it should be, i.e. I use the -insane version and it
is solved under the hood somehow? Or am I using
just iamerican?

OS:

  Linux ebih 4.19.0-6-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.67-2+deb10u2
  (2019-11-11) x86_64 GNU/Linux

Emacs:

  GNU Emacs 28.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+
  Version 3.24.5, cairo version 1.16.0) of 2020-10-23

Ispell:

  International Ispell Version 3.4.02 08 Jan 2021

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