Pages Spell Check all Wonky?

Does any one know how to fix this: I am spelling normal words in pages (i.e. "our" "at" "strong") and they are getting red-lined for spelling. When I right-click there are "no guesses" or very weird words coming up! I checked the language settings on my laptop and it is set to English. When I right-click the word and ask it to "look-up in dicitionary" it easily finds the definition!
Why isn't spell check using the selected dictionary? This is extremely annoying.
Thanks.

And now it is changing normal words to incoherant ones... I feel like my language has been changed. where are the preferences for this?
Thanks,
T

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