Your bug report #17437: 24.3; ispell uses typographically correct apostrophe as word boundary which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed. The explanation is attached below, along with your original report. If you require more details, please reply to 17437@debbugs.gnu.org. -- 17437: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=17437 GNU Bug Tracking System Contact help-debbugs@gnu.org with problems