[Aspell-user] Writing Colloquial Speech

[bill]

aspell-0.33.7.1 and lyx-1.2.1

I've begun using the above two programs to write non-fiction but find
spellchecking colloquial speech is nigh impossible e.g. any word that
has a curtailed ending such as, "darlin', mornin', evenin'" and which is
then selected for insersion in the Personal Dictionary, causes lyx to
freeze. No error message appears.

This action, or rather, non-action was very annoying and it wasn't until
I tried running lyx from the command line with, "run-with-aspell lyx"
that the error message, "Invalid word "Darlin'": The character ''' may
not appear at the end of a word", appeared in the console when
attempting the same thing.

Putting an apostrophy at the end of a word in place of the dropped
letter is the accepted convention to convey a person's form of speech
and the error message is not correct.

Is there any way to tell aspell to accept the apostrophy?

Paco