Inherent OSX Spelling Mistake Correction

This has been frustrating me for a while now.
There appears to be an inherent spelling mistake in the OS X dictionary - 'Australia' can also be spelt 'Asutralia' and it only appears to be the case in OS X 10.8
I have checked the user dictionaries as well as the system spelling dictionaries and it does not appear to be there.
Any ideas as to how I can correct this problem?

I do understand that you do not use any apps like textexpander which can be use to replace words with different?
First, create new user account and check if you can reproduce this issue. If new user doesn't have this problem then it's down to user serttings.
Log back in to your user account and first make sure that all apps like Pages, Word are off. Then go to System Preferences>Language & Text> Text and check list of text and symbol substitution or even better, click on Restore Defaults.
Then, open finder and when its open use shortuct SHIFT+CMD+G and go to ~/Library. Look inside library for folder Spelling - move it to your desktop. Log out and log in again, and open textedit and check if it's back to normal.

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