Is there a way to add new words to Mail dictionary?

Ok here is the deal as far as I can tell. You can add stuff with the Learn button but they will never show up as a valid option but will simply not be flagged as errors. This however has several offshoots that make this really LAME. An example:

Say you were typing in Spanish and used the Argentinian dialect where certain words are not part of the mainstream Spanish language. One of the nice things is being able to write the whole text and instead of hunting for the special characters to insert accents etc, you let the spell checker do it for you at the end. Well in this case the spell checker is useless because the word is neither in the standard dictionary nor in your personal "Learn" one since your personal one (as an example) would have an accent the Standard "dictionary" wouldn't have the word to begin with. Morever it doesn't even correct all occurences of the word within the text.

This is LAME. Back to MS Word and cut and paste forget about Mail as an editor

Siberian

G4 + Macmini Mac OS X (10.4.2)

Thanx Ferd, but what happened to all the words I entered previously under "LEARN"? None of them appear as choices...

Siberian

Yeah I found the file and opened a copy with TextEdit. Found the words, sans accents etc. but they are never presented as options. So I'll try your suggestion and let you know. Thanx

Siberian