Comment 13 for bug 315562

I am experiencing this problem in Ubuntu recise 12.04 x64.

In the Language Support dialog from System Settings...
    On the Language tab, I have (listed in order)...
        English (United States)
        English
    I have clicked the Apply System-Wide botton.

    On the Language tab, I have...
        English (United States) selected in the drop-down menu
    I have clicked the Apply System-Wide botton.

I restarted my computer, but gedit (version 3.4.1) still uses British spellings in the spell-checker.

Interestingly, about:config in FireFox reveals en_AU for the spellchecker.dictionaly value. I don't know if these issues are related, but I would expect gedit and FireFox to pull the settings from the Operating System.

(Is Ubuntu using Australian spellings instead of U.S.?)