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  • This is not a spacemacs thing-a-majig. It is an aspell configuration setting, which can be changed with aspell.conf. To dump the current configuration, open the terminal and type: aspell --lang=en dump config or use the absolute path if so desired: /path/to/aspell --lang=en dump config. Dumping the configuration will tell you where the aspell.conf needs to go, and there are several threads on Google with sample settings. Commented Mar 23, 2018 at 21:18
  • @lawlist, aspell doesn't seem to be on my system (see UPDATE 1 at end of question). Commented Mar 24, 2018 at 4:08
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    If you have searched your hard drive and cannot locate aspell, then you will need to install it if that is the utility you wish to use in conjunction with flyspell / ispell in Emacs. Emacs does not come with the utility known as aspell. Be aware that some people may prefer hunspell over aspell ... See this helpful blog: blog.binchen.org/posts/… See also this related thread for users of OSX: stackoverflow.com/questions/19022015/… Commented Mar 24, 2018 at 5:18
  • @lawlist, I found aspell but it's unresponsive (see UPDATE 2 at end of question). Commented Mar 24, 2018 at 8:14
  • It appears as though you may need to learn, by Googling and reading, how to add a program to your $PATH and depending upon the platform that Emacs is being used, it will be necessary to set the $PATH within Emacs also (e.g., Emacs for OSX does not automatically use the system $PATH). If you do not wish to play around with setting the $PATH for certain utilities, you can always use the absolute path. See the first comment above of what this looks like. If aspell is broken somehow, then you may need to reinstall it -- using the absolute path should be sufficient if it is working. Commented Mar 24, 2018 at 16:09