GNU Aspell is a Free and Open Source spell checker designed
to eventually replace Ispell. It can either be used as a
library or as an independent spell checker. Its main feature
is that it does a superior job of suggesting possible
replacements for a misspelled word than just about any other 
spell checker out there for the English language. Unlike
Ispell, Aspell can also easily check documents in UTF-8
without having to use a special dictionary. Aspell will also
do its best to respect the current locale setting. Other
advantages over Ispell include support for using multiple 
dictionaries at once and intelligently handling personal
dictionaries when more than one Aspell process is open at
once.  
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