Can't get mail to stop correcting spelling

This has changed recently. I have set Spellchecking in Mail > Preferences to Never but it still corrects what it thinks are mistakes as I press space after a word. For example, ppi (pixels per inch) is always changed to pip.
I know that CMND + ; will do a spell check (which is how I want Mail to work, manually). I have restarted my iMac, pulled the mains plug, waited for 20 seconds then restarted. No cure.
Should I delete Mail and re-install? If so, where do I get Mail?
This fault is making Mail unusable.

On the Text tab. Sorry, I should have mentioned that >_<
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