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Wes Hardaker <wjhardaker@ucdavis.edu> writes in ding@gnus.org:

> Anyway, pterodactyl is not in the default ispell dictionary, and hence 
> gnus bug reports bail on the first word...

> Should we report this to the ispell authors?

?

I didn't think a dictionary was included with ispell.

For American English you probably ought to install the
copyright-expired/now-public domain Webster's dictionary.  If I M-$ on 
pterodactyl, ispell says it is correct.