Try setting the language to british in the language pane of document
settings.

Nigel

2008/6/12 RyanC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Hello,
>
> LyX 1.5.3 on Mepis Linux does not seem to be able to make use of any of my
> spell checking libraries. I'm pretty sure I have them all installed -
> ispell, aspell, etc; American and British English. With ispell I get:
>
> The spellchecker could not be started
> Can't open /usr/lib/ispell/english.hash
>
> I think this may be because the file is not called "english.hash", but
> "british.hash". Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Ryan
>

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