aspell rpm is defective.

[Rex Dieter]

Aaron Konstam wrote:

> No one responded to my question of the absence of dictionaries for
> aspell and ispell so I looked further.

Fedora's aspell maintainer, for better or worse, chose to make it not 
require any functional dictionaries by default.

In short, you have to install at least one dictionary, say, aspell-en for it 
to function properly.

See also related bugs,
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=494084
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507228

-- Rex