diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 791247b3..51deb004 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+2010-05-11  Akim Demaille  <demaille@gostai.com>
+
+	doc: please Emacs.
+	* doc/bison.texinfo (Local Variables): Move this after the
+	LocalWords, since the latter are looked for in the whole document,
+	while the former are looked for only at its end.
+	Require american spell checking.
+
 2011-02-06  Joel E. Denny  <joeldenny@joeldenny.org>
 
 	doc: clean up new subsections in manual.
diff --git a/doc/bison.texinfo b/doc/bison.texinfo
index c48e8559..6c8e9809 100644
--- a/doc/bison.texinfo
+++ b/doc/bison.texinfo
@@ -10876,10 +10876,6 @@ grammatically indivisible.  The piece of text it represents is a token.
 
 @bye
 
-@c Local Variables:
-@c fill-column: 76
-@c End:
-
 @c LocalWords: texinfo setfilename settitle setchapternewpage finalout texi FSF
 @c LocalWords: ifinfo smallbook shorttitlepage titlepage GPL FIXME iftex FSF's
 @c LocalWords: akim fn cp syncodeindex vr tp synindex dircategory direntry Naur
@@ -10932,3 +10928,8 @@ grammatically indivisible.  The piece of text it represents is a token.
 @c LocalWords: bisonVersion deftypecvx bisonSkeleton getStartPos getEndPos
 @c LocalWords: getLVal defvar deftypefn deftypefnx gotos msgfmt Corbett
 @c LocalWords: subdirectory Solaris nonassociativity
+
+@c Local Variables:
+@c ispell-dictionary: "american"
+@c fill-column: 76
+@c End: