leandro noferini writes: >> (setq gnus-posting-styles >> '(("emacs-liste" >> (address "sven.bretfeld@gmx.ch") >> (eval (setq ispell-local-dictionary "american"))) > > [...] > > If I try the same I get this error: > > Errore: Expected language "en" but got "it". > > What's wrong? I suppose that you don't have the correct dictionary installed. "it" is Italian, I believe this to be your default language and probably the only one you have installed. "en" is an additional dictionary teaching aspell to understand English. If you are under Debian you have to install the package "aspell-en" which contains British English and American. If you are using ispell you should consider changing to aspell, since this is the more powerful spell checker (the Emacs code for calling both programs is identical, AFAIK; it's always "ispell-local-dictionary" even if aspell is used). Anyway, the corresponding packages for ispell are ibritish and iamerican under Debian and probably its offsprings (Ubuntu etc.). I don't know about other distributions, let alone MS-Windows. Greetings Sven