diff --git a/NOTICE b/NOTICE
index 1c7ac9c9..1073f48d 100644
--- a/NOTICE
+++ b/NOTICE
@@ -25,6 +25,33 @@ crates/proof/data/en-words.dic: public domain, the words of the Moby Hyphenator
   Ward (Project Gutenberg eBook #3204), without its break points.
 crates/proof/data/en-extra.txt: MIT OR Apache-2.0, WordCraft contributors' own list of modern
   English words (a copy of craft-i18n's language-data/en-us/en-extra.txt).
+craft-proof Language data, embedded at build time from craft-i18n's language-data/ when
+  CRAFT_I18N_DIR is set (CRAFT_PROOF_EMBED picks the locales; by default English and the German,
+  Polish, Portuguese, Italian and Russian data). Each file keeps its licence header; the
+  licences are listed in craft-i18n's ATTRIBUTION.md, and a pattern file's notice ships with any
+  application that embeds it. The Portuguese hyphenation patterns (language-data/pt/
+  hyphenation.pat, hyph-utf8 hyph-pt 1.4) are under the BSD 3-clause licence:
+  Copyright (C) 1987, 1994, 1996, 2015 Pedro J. de Rezende, 1996, 2015 J. Joao Dias Almeida,
+  2024 Leonardo Araujo and Aline Benevides.
+  Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are
+  permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
+  * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of
+    conditions and the following disclaimer.
+  * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of
+    conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials
+    provided with the distribution.
+  * Neither the name of the University of Campinas, of the University of Minho nor the names of
+    its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
+    without specific prior written permission.
+  THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR
+  IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND
+  FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL PEDRO J. DE REZENDE OR J.JOAO
+  DIAS ALMEIDA BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR
+  CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR
+  SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY
+  THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR
+  OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
+  POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 crates/text/assets/hyphen/en-us.pat: CC0-1.0, trained from en-us.dic by DesignCraft's trainer.
 Hyphenation patterns for other languages, embedded through the hypher crate only when the
   matching craft-text feature is enabled (none are by default). They come from hyph-utf8,
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 58b561d6..7c1db128 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -82,8 +82,10 @@ craft-<name> = { git = "https://github.com/storytold/craft-libs", rev = "<commit
 - [`craft-print`](crates/print/README.md): PDF submission to CUPS and Windows, printer discovery,
   duplex/copies/colour and driver preferences. PDF generation stays in each app.
 - [`craft-proof`](crates/proof/README.md): proofing per language (spelling, suggestions, grammar,
-  hyphenation, a Hunspell reader, user words). The word lists and patterns are craft-i18n's
-  `language-data/`, embedded at build time from `CRAFT_I18N_DIR`.
+  hyphenation, a Hunspell reader, user words, Language packs). The word lists and patterns are
+  craft-i18n's `language-data/`, embedded at build time from `CRAFT_I18N_DIR`: English and the
+  carry-over locales by default, the set `CRAFT_PROOF_EMBED` names otherwise (`en` for English
+  only); other languages come from installed Language packs.
 
 - [`craft-quit`](crates/quit/src/lib.rs): native macOS quit, egui close handling and an optional
   app menu. Unsaved-document decisions and save prompts stay in each app.
diff --git a/crates/proof/README.md b/crates/proof/README.md
index 77d01c78..49a16473 100644
--- a/crates/proof/README.md
+++ b/crates/proof/README.md
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ use craft_proof::{ProofLang, check_text_with, suggest_in, Options};
 use craft_proof::hyphen::{hyphen_points_in, Limits};
 
 // A paragraph whose runs are in different languages (byte ranges of `text`).
+let text = "The colour of the hous.";
 let issues = check_text_with(text, &[(0..text.len(), ProofLang::EnGb)], &Options::default(), true, false);
 let fixes = suggest_in("colour", 5, ProofLang::En);
 let breaks = hyphen_points_in("hyphenation", &Limits::default(), ProofLang::En);
@@ -166,8 +167,8 @@ English spelling uses the first of these that is there; `english_source(lang)` s
 4. **System Hunspell:** the English's own pair in the system locations. Never another English's:
    an `en_US` dictionary would mark British spellings, so en-GB and en-CA without their own use
    the built-in list, which has both spellings. Each name is looked for in every folder before the
-   next name; a file that can't be read is skipped for the next name or folder; one file is read
-   once for every English that uses it. `COMPOUNDRULE`, `ONLYINCOMPOUND` and `COMPOUNDMIN`
+   next name; a file that can't be read is skipped for the next name or folder, up to the first eight
+   candidates (the rest aren't tried); one file is read once for every English that uses it. `COMPOUNDRULE`, `ONLYINCOMPOUND` and `COMPOUNDMIN`
    (ordinals such as `21st`) are read; flag-based compounding (`COMPOUNDFLAG`…) is ignored for
    English rather than refused; `OCONV` writes suggestions as the dictionary says (`don’t`), as for
    every language. None on the web.
diff --git a/crates/proof/examples/en_words.rs b/crates/proof/examples/en_words.rs
index 45a5f9dd..4bd5e9ef 100644
--- a/crates/proof/examples/en_words.rs
+++ b/crates/proof/examples/en_words.rs
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 //! README): every word of the public-domain Moby Hyphenator II list, without its break points.
 //!
 //! ```sh
-//! cargo run -p craft-proof --example en_words -- <craft-i18n>/language-data/en-us/en-us.dic data/en-words.dic
+//! cargo run -p craft-proof --example en_words -- <craft-i18n>/language-data/en-us/en-us.dic crates/proof/data/en-words.dic
 //! ```
 //!
 //! The input is craft-i18n's `en-us.dic`: the Moby Hyphenator II list by Grady Ward (Project