diff --git a/Library/Contributions/cmds/brew-aspell-dictionaries b/Library/Contributions/cmds/brew-aspell-dictionaries
index b07e1a5e43..f6677ac544 100755
--- a/Library/Contributions/cmds/brew-aspell-dictionaries
+++ b/Library/Contributions/cmds/brew-aspell-dictionaries
@@ -9,12 +9,13 @@
 # The result can then to be merged into the aspell formula, to update
 # the available dictionary formulae.
 
-dictionaries_url=http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/dict
+dictionaries_url=http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/aspell/dict
+dictionaries_mirror=http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/dict
 tmp_file=`mktemp -t brew_aspell_dictionaries`
 brew_formulae_tmp_file=`mktemp -t brew_aspell_dictionaries_formulae`
 
 echo "Downloading aspell dictionaries Index"
-curl -s ${dictionaries_url}/0index.html \
+curl -sL ${dictionaries_url}/0index.html \
        | egrep '^(<tr><td><a|</table)' \
        | cut -d\" -f2,4 \
        > $tmp_file
@@ -25,12 +26,14 @@ for dict in `cat $tmp_file`; do
   [ "${dict}" = "</table>" ] && break # only read the entries in the first table, which lists the dictionaries for aspell 0.60
   lang=`echo $dict | awk -F\" '{ gsub("-", "_", $1); print $1 }'`
   url="${dictionaries_url}/"`echo $dict | awk -F\" '{ print $2 }'`
+  mirror="${dictionaries_mirror}/"`echo $dict | awk -F\" '{ print $2 }'`
   langs="${langs} ${lang}"
   echo "Calculating sha1 for formula: ${lang}"
-  sha1=`curl -s "${url}" | shasum | awk '{print $1}'`
+  sha1=`curl -sL "${url}" | shasum | awk '{print $1}'`
   cat <<EOF >> $brew_formulae_tmp_file
 class Aspell_${lang} < AspellLang
   url '${url}'
+  mirror '${mirror}'
   sha1 '${sha1}'
 end
 EOF