diff --git a/src/nylas-spellchecker.coffee b/src/nylas-spellchecker.coffee
index 59f410373..cf4f06fa0 100644
--- a/src/nylas-spellchecker.coffee
+++ b/src/nylas-spellchecker.coffee
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ class NylasSpellchecker
   isLanguageAvailable: (lang) =>
     return false unless lang
     dicts = @getAvailableDictionaries()
-    return (lang in dicts) or (lang.split(/[-_]/)[0] in dicts)
+    return (lang in dicts) or (lang.split(/[-_]/)[0] in dicts) or (lang.replace('_', '-') in dicts) or (lang.replace('-', '_') in dicts)
 
   isSpelledCorrectly: (args...) => not @isMisspelled(args...)
 
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ class NylasSpellchecker
   getAvailableDictionaries: ->
     if process.platform is 'linux'
       arr = spellchecker.getAvailableDictionaries()
-      if not "en_US" in arr
+      if "en_US" not in arr
         arr.push('en_US') # Installed by default in node-spellchecker's vendor directory
       arr
     else