How do I change the spellcheck dictionary in OS Mavericks?

The spellcheck works well and I don't want to disable it. However it is extremely anoying for those of us living in Oklahoma as it constantly tries to change OK (as in Oklahoma) to Okay. I tried to edit the dictionary as instructed for previous versions of OS, but I cannot find the database or am using the wrong program to open it.

Doesn't change it for me.  OK is "OK".  Even if I run Spell Check Now, it does not show any errors.

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