Spell-check doesn't work on words with dashes (Mail.app in Yosemite) I just upgraded to Yosemite, and noticed that in Mail.app spell check (as you type) doesn't work properly if two words are connected by a dash (hyphen) and only the second one is misspelled. For example:


test-test (no squiggly)
test-asdf (no squiggly)
asdf-test (squiggly on first word)
asdf-asdf (squiggly on first word)


Here #2 should get a squiggly but it does not. All other applications seem to work as expected (although I'd prefer to have squigglies on both words for #4). I have Mac OS 10.10.2 and Mail.app 8.2 (2070.6).

Any suggestions for workarounds?
This is not a answer...but to show the result of a test

It confirms a problem with using a dash with spell checker in Mail.app and Notes ect... on my MBA with 10.9.5



The result is sporadic, sometimes if the word before dash is correct it will ignore the word after dash, sometimes not.

Interestingly if I enable check Grammar with Spelling it will work correctly.