diff --git a/src/uu/dd/cspell.json b/src/uu/dd/cspell.json
index 91b041d12..9f4bd4207 100644
--- a/src/uu/dd/cspell.json
+++ b/src/uu/dd/cspell.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
     "version": "0.1",
-    "language": "en-CA",
+    "language": "en",
     "words": [
         "ucase",
         "lcase",
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
         "ctty",
     ],
     "ignorePaths": [
-        "test-fixtures/*.test",
-        "test-fixtures/*.spec"
+        "**/test-fixtures/*.test",
+        "**/test-fixtures/*.spec"
     ]
 }
diff --git a/tests/by-util/test_dd.rs b/tests/by-util/test_dd.rs
index 736570b56..5e9014d39 100644
--- a/tests/by-util/test_dd.rs
+++ b/tests/by-util/test_dd.rs
@@ -516,7 +516,13 @@ fn test_ascii_5_gibi_to_file() {
     let tmp_fn = format!("TESTFILE-{}.tmp", &tname);
 
     let (fix, mut ucmd) = at_and_ucmd!();
-    ucmd.args(&["status=none", "count=5G", "iflag=count_bytes", "if=/dev/zero", of!(tmp_fn)])
+    ucmd.args(&[
+        "status=none",
+        "count=5G",
+        "iflag=count_bytes",
+        "if=/dev/zero",
+        of!(tmp_fn)
+    ])
     .run()
     .no_stderr()
     .no_stdout()
diff --git a/tests/fixtures/dd/cspell.json b/tests/fixtures/dd/cspell.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..19986ad83
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/fixtures/dd/cspell.json
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+{
+    "version": "0.1",
+    "language": "en",
+    "ignorePaths": [
+        "*.txt",
+        "*.spec"
+    ]
+}