check-spelling uses streetsidesoftware/cspell-dicts as the basis for its extra dictionaries. At some point, the files in cspell-dicts were reorganized.
This means that cspell: paths that reference the old locations are likely to break.
You are likely to encounter a dictionary-not-found error which should walk you through the steps necessary to resolve the problem.
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