I can't change the language setting in Mountain Lion

I downloaded and installed Mountain Lion.  The spell checker objected to almost every word I entered.  Even after updating the System Preferences to selcect US English as its first choice,, and even after I logged out, and back in again, and even after I rebooted, it still comes out wrong.  For some reason it wants use Portuguese.

There are two Language settings - the "Language" Tab and the "Text" tab. Have you set the language in both tabs?
And how are your "Text" settings (the second tab) in the "Language & Text " preferences? Try to switch "Spelling" from "Automatic" to "U. S. English". This helped to get the spelling corrrect for me in Text Edit.

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