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I use Writer (Apache 4.1.15) for my journal. Because it's my journal, I regularly write things that I know are wrong, like:
Friggin', Lookin', Cursin' and so on. I could certainly add such words to my local dictionary, but then when I'm writing a proper document, spell check won't pick up on an accidental missing "G".

I tried adding "Slammin" to my dictionary, and going into my user data and changing the Wordbook entry to include an apostrophe, but then "Slammin' " comes up wrong in a spell check.

I'd like to know if I can create a spell check rule that allows for ~ing to be replaced by ~in'. If so, how?

You can have more than one "local" dictionary. Go to Tools > Options > Language Settings > Writing Aids" > User-defined dictionaries and add a new "redneck" dictionary. Add the "redneck" words to that dictionary instead of the Standard dictionary. You can then disable use of the "redneck" dictionary when writing a proper document.

I reckon that will work. Thank you for your reply.