> Clive may have meant the value for your locale. My mistake for over-trimming in my previous reply. In fact I was referring to the spellchecker.dictionary setting in about:config; mine is en_GB But it's moot. As reported in another sub-thread, kj's solution was to install the English language pack. Cheers, Clive -- PS corruption of the signature separator, and addition of legalese blurb are beyond my control.