I want to disable Safari spell checker

While I'm writing this message I see those ridicolous red waves that underline some words (Why only some?).
Is it a Safari 3.0.4 issue or this site (and also other sites) issue?
The same did not happen with previous versions of Safari.
These underlinings do not show when I write italian words.
I searched this forum, Safari menus, help and preferences. But I could not find how to disable it.

Quit Safari and paste the command line below in the Terminal - then press Return.
I works for me.
defaults write com.apple.Safari WebContinuousSpellCheckingEnabled -bool NO
Good luck,
Tom

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