> Yeah this happens to me every time I install or upgrade OOo. To fix it > edit the /usr/lib/ooo-1.1/share/dict/ooo/dictionary.lst file and comment > out (with a #) all the languages that you'll never use. The only lines > that I have uncommented in my dictionary.lst are > > DICT en US en_US > HYPH en US en_US > THES en US th_en_US I wish I had read this before I tried to spell check a document last night. I simply 'right-clicked' on a misspelled word, and it totally hosed my computer for a good hour or so (PII-450MHz). Does anyone know if, now that I have all but the above three lines commented out in the dictionary.lst file, it is safe to delete the large non-English dictionary files that I will never use?