--- /dev/null
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# make sure to only remove symlinks and unneeded dicts
+keep_dicts=('de_DE' 'fr_FR' 'en_US' 'en_GB')
+dicts="$(ls /usr/share/hunspell/* /usr/share/myspell/dicts/*)"
+
+for keep_dict in ${keep_dicts[@]}; do
+ dicts=$(echo $dicts | sed "s/\S*${keep_dict}\S* //g")
+done
+
+sudo rm ${dicts[@]}