Sorry if I appear to be spamming your inboxes, but I am posting my findings as I try stuff out. REINSTALLING hunspell-en-us also solves the problem ie my docs can now be US English and the spellchecker works as advertised. I cannot offer an explanation for this - it just worked on my installation.
-- Spellcheck in Openoffice 3.0 (Jaunty alpha) flags all words as mis-spellings https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/335514 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs