e will assume you have ISpell installed on you machine.
(in /usr/local/lib)</p>
<p>There has been some confusion in the past as to which files are
used from ISpell. ISpell operates using a hash file. This is a
binary file created by the ISpell command line utility "buildhash".
This utility accepts a file containing the words from the
dictionary, and the affixes file and the output is the hash file.
The default installation of ISPell installs the english hash file
english.hash, which is the exact same file a