iamerican-small software package provides American English dictionary for ispell (small), you can install in your Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install iamerican-small
iamerican-small is installed in your system.
Make ensure the iamerican-small package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep iamerican-small *
You will get with iamerican-small package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Text Processing |
| Package | iamerican-small |
| Version | 3.4.00-5 |
| Description | American English dictionary for ispell (small) |
| Sub Section | Text |