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Working-With-Dictionaries.html#Working-With-DictionariesWorking With Dictionaries 5.9 Dictionary Naming
In order for Aspell to be able to correctly recognize a dictionary
based on the setting of the 
LANG environment variable the
dictionaries need to be located somewhere Aspell can find them and
they need to be 
multi dictionaries.  Where aspell looks for
dictionaries depends on the value of the 
dict-dir and
word-list-path option.
   
dict-dir is generally prefix/lib/aspell, and
word-list-path is generally empty.
   
Each dictionary that you expect Aspell to be able to find needs to
have a name in the following format:
     language[_region][-variety][-size].multi
   
where language is the two letter language code, region is
the two letter region code, 
variety is any extra information to
distinguish the word list from other ones with the same language and
spelling.  Multiple varieties can be used by separating them with a '-'. 
Finally, 
size is the size of the dictionary.  If no size is
specified that the default size of 60 will be assumed.
   
For example:
     en.multi
     en_US.multi
     en-medical.multi
     en-medical-85.multi
     en-85.multi
     de.multi
   
