Dictionary changes language randomly within a document

Are you sure that there are no style overrides?

It's great that you have identified it as marked with paragraph and character styles that are marked as English, but that doesn't mean it's all marked as English. In this example, I marked some of the words as French in MS Word, imported the text, and applied the paragraph style, but didn't clear all overrides. 

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Even when I change the dictionary within the Spell Check modal it still reverts to French.

Changing the spell check language won't change the assigned language, and it really looks like many of those words were assigned the French language property, which is a character-level property. Assigning a paragraph style won't remove those character-level properties, either. 

If that text is flagged as English in the Character panel, then there's something very wrong with your document. But I suspect that you just have some version control issues in Some Word Processing App Or OTher thatyou can resolve by clearing paragraph formatting overrides. 

The language can be set for the paragraph style, but character styles or formatting can override it. 

Try selecting the text in one of the text frames and then click the ¶* button at the bottom of the Paragraph Styles panel. Does that clear it?

~Barb

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Hello @41315633,

That does seem strange. Could you try copying all layers/objects from the problematic document to a new one to see if the problem persists?

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Anubhav