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@@ -1282,6 +1282,11 @@ Ispell. (Ispell can only spell-check one language at a time, because
it uses a single dictionary.) Make sure that the text you are
spelling and the dictionary used by Ispell conform to each other.
+If your spell-checking program is Aspell, it has been reported that if
+you have a personal configuration file (normally ~/.aspell.conf), it
+can cause this error. Remove that file, execute `ispell-kill-ispell'
+in Emacs, and then try spell-checking again.
+
* On Linux-based GNU systems using libc versions 5.4.19 through
5.4.22, Emacs crashes at startup with a segmentation fault.