bug#2554: 23.0.90; How to set default ispell dictionary isn't documented?

Richard M Stallman <[email protected]> Wed, 04 Mar 2009 03:51:20 -0500

Newsgroups	gmane.emacs.bugs,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs
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    > The manual (info "(emacs)Spelling") doesn't explain how to set default
    > ispell dictionary ('ispell-dictionary'?) for all buffers / for every
    > Emacs session.

    I believe the intention is that you should set the default dictionary
    outside of Emacs.  Not sure how to do that, tho.

Since many of us use ispell only from Emacs, I think it would be easier
to have a way in Emacs to specify this.