Subject: Re: bug#45311: ispell: Can’t find Hunspell dictionary with a .aff affix file

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2020 13:59:46 +0200

> From: Claudio Bley <[email-masked]>
> Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2020 11:28:24 +0100
> 
> Why is a default dictionary required at all? The function should be able
> to work without one.

Does it help to say

  M-x ispell-change-dictionary RET en_GB RET

?

The default dictionary is needed because when we invoke the speller
for the first time, we must tell it which dictionary to use.  If you
want it to use en_GB although your locale is en_US, one way that I
think should work is to copy the en_GB-ize.* files to default.* in the
directory where you keep the Hunspell dictionaries.