Why does Word 2007 ignore most of my misspellings?

Word automatically fixed “condiminium” for me, but it did flag “reather”.

I can’t seem to duplicate any of these errors. When I type the words in, I get the same results as @erichw1504. When I copy and paste from the OP, everything that is spelled incorrectly gets flagged.

At what point I saw a pop-up dialog with something about text or maybe a paragraph marked as “do not spellcheck” or something like that. Sadly I dismissed it without copying the exact message and I can’t make it reappear.

Can you copy the text, open up a new document, and paste it, so as to reset the thing?

@jaytkay Highlight the area in question, go to Review > Proofing > Set Language, and see if the “Do not check spelling or grammar” box is checked.

@CunningLinguist TA DA! You just kicked Word 2007’s butt! Thank you! How that setting changed I do not know. THANK YOU!

@jaytkay You’re welcome! One thing you should check is that this did not somehow become part of your Normal template. Open a new document and check to see if the box is checked by default. If not, then only the one paragraph got messed up somehow. If so, check out one of these primers on how to update the template.