Actually I noticed some time ago that using single quotes inside a LyX document
made for problems with spell check...
For example if I typed this:

Bill said, "I asked her, and she said, 'No, I don't want to go.' So I
went fishing by myself."

Into a LyX document and ran the spell check function, It would suggest
replacing "'No" with "No"... I just checked, and this still happens with
LyX 1.6.5 on Arch Linux.

I always thought this was a limitation of aspell. But I recently happened
to use a similar construct in the text of an email which I spell checked
from vim via my .vimrc key mappings:
:map s :w^M:w! $spellfile^M:!aspell -e -c $spellfile^M 
:map S :w^MG:r $spellfile^Mkd1G
(Where of course "^M" is actually a single character that simulates hitting 
enter)

And it turns out that aspell itself doesn't seem to consider the ' character
to be part of a word unless it's wrapped in letters on both sides such as
in the contraction "it's"...

Is there a reason why LyX's implementation of aspell chokes on ' characters
used as single quotes???

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