After reading the comments more carefully above, I did go to Edit->Preferences->Composer Preferences and select a different language, clicked OK and closed Evolution, then restarted it and again went to Edit->Preferences->Composer Preferences and selected the language I wanted. This seemed to fix it permanently through subsequent restarts. Thank you to the above posters who took the time and effort to write this out.
-Kevin -- Intrepid - Evolution does not spell check or is not enabled by default https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/288930 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs