Pages in-built dictionary and spelling correction

Hi. this is my first post here.
I've recently started using Pages as my main word program. I'm still learning how to use this program, and it has got quite some quirks of its own.
my question is: when i type "may", the program always capitalize it to 'May' where 'May' as month is not intended. The dictionary seems to be very basic. it does not recognize many common words that a program like Microsoft Word would.
I am wondering if you could tell me how to customize these spelling errors. I've already done many with Auto Correction feature in the Preferences.
thank you
iMac Mac OS X (10.4.10) iMac 20''

Beth,
Welcome to Apple discussions.
The issue of Pages insisting that may is the name of a month has come up a few times before. You can fix this specific problem by dinking inside Pages' AutoCorrect file. To edit this file, you need to open up Pages' package contents in the Finder. Command-click on Pages > select Show Package Contents from the menu. From there, navigate thusly: pages/contents/frameworks/sfwordprocessingframework/versions/A/resources/englis h.lproj/autocorrect.plist. Delete the entry for "May." "August" too.
-Dennis

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