Why won't the spell checker learn?

Several times now I've spell checked Numbers documents and told the checker to "learn" unknown words, only to have the same words marked as misspelled or unknown the next time I open the document. Is there some Numbers or system setting that is preventing the spell checker from adding learned words to the dictionary?

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