Leo's spell check: I WANT IT OFF!!!

The new system-wide spell checker abilities are not for me. I work multilingual and the red dotted underlining is driving me crazy!
Some apps will let you turn it off (edit menu), but some others won't, like iCal: you can only choose to show or not show the spelling and grammar pane... but I want it OFF!
Any ideas?

was also my first instinct
...still the red dotted lines...

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    Wise-***.
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