Perhaps this blog may explain...
http://pschmid.net/blog/2006/11/13/80

See this section.....

After installing Office 2007 RTM, you don't have English as a choice of language in the spell checker of Outlook Express and potentially other programs.

a.. Office 2007 is replacing the v.3 English Proofing Tools that shipped in prior versions of Office with a new version (v.6). There are a number of changes in this new version, but the one that is causing this problem is that Outlook Express doesn't understand the new English Proofing Tools. This is a problem because Outlook Express has never shipped with its own proofing tools but has used the ones shipped by Office.
b.. There are a few scenarios in which you won't run into this problem:
a.. An upgrade from Office 2003 or earlier to Office 2007 RTM if you don't manually uninstall the earlier version of Office.
b.. A configuration in which Office 2003 (or earlier) has not been removed.
For example, I have Office 2003 still on both of my computers, and I still have English in Outlook Express.
c.. The workaround for this problem is to install the English dictionary from Office 2003 (or Office XP). There should be no need to install all of Office just the dictionary. The English Proofing Tools can be found in the Custom Install tree under 'Office Shared Features|Proofing Tools|English'.
Ken

"Karen" wrote in message ...

| Hi Bruce,
|
| I only mentioned Office because it was the only 'new' activity in the past
| week.
|
| This problem is in Outlook Express, it has recently decided I am French and
| I would like advice on how to remind that my language is English (U.S.)
|
| --
| Karen
| "Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
| ...
| I've never used Office or Outlook myself. There is, I believe, a workaround
| by installing the proofing tools for the 2003 version, but I couldn't tell
| you how to do it.
|
| I've never had anything but a free spell check myself, and I know of one OE
| MVP that was using the spell check from MS Word, and opted to use Tiny Spell
| instead. Likes it better.
| --
| Bruce Hagen
| MS-MVP Outlook Express
| ~IB-CA~
|
| "Karen" wrote in message
| ...
| Hi Bruce,
|
| Wow, thanks for the rapid response. I would like OE to behave as it did,
| spell check in English. Any ideas why it would have changed to French and
| how I could just go back?
|
| --
| Karen
| "Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
| ...
| Office 2007 does not support Spell Check in OE. You can download a
| freeware
| spell check which will work fine.
|
| http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=2952
|
| http://www.tinyspell.m6.net/ (Checks the spelling as you type).
| --
| Bruce Hagen
| MS-MVP Outlook Express
| ~IB-CA~
|
| "Karen" wrote in message
| ...
| Hi All,
|
| For no apparent reason, my spellcheck in OE has switched to French. The
| only 'new' feature I can report is that I have installed Office 2007
| which isn't linked to OE as far as I know. On the off chance, I did
| check the language settings for Office 2007 and it shows English (U.S.)
| and no other languages are enabled.
|
| Any ideas? It is amusing but I rely on the spellchecker so it would be
| nice if it stopped recommending faculte' for faculty
|
| --
| Karen
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