The code used short open tags.
I turn set short_open_tags to "off" on my server
because I am also using xml which uses the "<?"
Therefore I needed to length the "<?" tags to "<?php?".
This caused another problem.
When I edited the Pungo Spell my editor placed end of
line characters in the code.
The "end of line characters" causes Pungo not to work
when the text it is spell checking is from a cut & paste.
I ultimately had to fix the problem by editing the code
in "vi" on my server.
I think that if pungo spell is sensivie to some editors
it should use long open tags "<?php"