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  1. I rebooted my Macbook Air [M2] and Grammarly opened although not in the start-up/login items. I closed it and uninstalled the app only to discover that I had the issues mentioned on this page, when writing in Scrivener and even textedit. I followed all the advice here and elsewhere but to no effect, but found the solution here:

    https://support.grammarly.com/hc/en-us/articles/10673656034829-The-macOS-spell-checker-was-turned-off-How-do-I-turn-it-back-on

    Which basically entails pasting the following into the terminal and rebooting your Mac

    defaults write -g NSAllowContinuousSpellChecking -bool true

    All this reminded me that I’ve had this issue before with Grammarly which is why I uninstalled it, Grammarly really should sort this issue which cost me two days of writing. My biggest issue was losing the ability to: ‘check spelling as you write’.

  2. I believe the problem is systemic, only Apple can fix it. The dictionary picks up from users suggestions, so if many users accept
    “child ‘s ice-cream” to be correct, when it should be:
    “child’s ice-cream” without the space after the d, then the dictionary will eventually accept the wrong spelling to be correct, and hence thats how language gets corrupted.

  3. I am repeatedly finding that my MacBook Air M1 spell check doesn’t work consistently on Word. This never happened on a PC. Why does my MacBook Air not hold settings of spell check for Word? Word settings are fine. What is it that makes Word not function properly on MacBook Air. Is it a competitive thing between Apple and Microsoft? It is frustrating to be always troubleshooting this, then following suggestions that don’twork sometimes. Other times it does work but then inevitably it reverts or defaults to dysfunction again soon after.

  4. Hi Serhat

    I’ve done all you’ve suggested above and it’s all correct, BUT apple Mail still doesn’t correct spelling automatically (It picks up some spelling errors, but not others. e.g., it won’t capitalise an ‘i’ if I spell it in lower-case, or insert an apostrophe when necessary).

    The spell correction works perfectly in Pages, but not in Mail. Is it possible, that somehow there’s a ‘user dictionary’ that has been accidentally populated with bad spelling? Is there any way to clear this?

    Your help would be appreciated…

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