It appears that when one loads aspell via the GUI interface to yum, 
there is no requirement to load an actual dictionary.  Thus, when I 
invoked aspell (as well as the ispell interface to aspell), it 
generated:  Error: No word lists can be found for the language "en_US". 
   However, by manually selecting English dictionaries for aspell from 
the add/remove software GUI yum interface, the problem was corrected. 
Thus, a better approach -- perhaps beyond what TUV does -- is to force 
the installation of at least one such dictionary when aspell is being 
installed.  This selection might be made semi-automatically depending 
upon the keyboard language selection that was made during the 
installation of EL.

Yasha Karant