Deactivate "Correct Spelling Automatically" system wide and permanently?

Hi,
as the title says: is there a way to deactivate "Correct Spelling Automatically" system wide and permanently?
I really really don't like it!
Thank you,
Cédric

Thank you so much! It was really driving me crazy since I often switch between different languages and have some text in multiple languages which always caused a total mess and the correct spelling automatically thing would just correct everything wrong.
Thank you!

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