Disabling AppleSpell on OS X (Yosemite)

Update: Had to do this again with Yosemite 10.10.3

I’m not a big fan of seeing the red underscores from “misspelled” words in OS X. It’s also not very friendly to someone who’s bilingual. (I type three different languages on a daily basis; English, Norwegian and Afrikaans)

There’s an easy way to fix this though. Open up Terminal.app and type the following.

$ ps auxw|grep Spell
tk 608 0.0 0.0 2623488 7756 ?? S Fri03PM 0:05.42 /System/Library/Services/AppleSpell.service/Contents/MacOS/AppleSpell -psn_0_225335
$ cd /System/Library/Services/
$ sudo kill -9 608 && sudo mv AppleSpell.service AppleSpell.service.disabled

I occasionally have to do this after an OS X update that re-enabled AppleSpell.service.