> I have noticed a strange ispell behavior when strings starting by \sp are in
> the text, like in \spanish or \special,
> 
> $ cat test.txt
> \special
> \spanish

This is a feature, not a bug.

By default, ispell uses the nroff deformatter.  \sp is a control
sequence in nroff.  (More accurately, \s<n> where n is a number, is a
control sequence, but ispell's deformatter is a bit dumb about it.)
You'll find similar problems with \f and \(.

If you want plain-text deformatting, ispell 3.3 offers the "-o" option
to do that.
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