>>>>> "Torsten" == Torsten Hothorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>> on Thu, 8 Dec 2005 08:51:57 +0100 (CET) writes:
Torsten> On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
>> I've often wondered about that.
Torsten> and the copy editor did too :-)
>> I've presumed that the names were
>> deliberate, so have you checked the stated source? It's not readily
>> available to me (as one would expect in Oxford)?
Torsten> our library doesn't seems to have a copy of `The Cambridge
Torsten> Encyclopaedia', so I can't check either. Google has 74.900 hits for
Torsten> `Gibralta' (more than one would expect for a typo, I think)
Torsten> and 57.700.000 for `Gibraltar'.
Torsten> So maybe both spellings are in use.
Well, do you expect web authors to have a much lower rate of
typos than 1:770 ?
My limited experience on "google voting for spelling correction"
has rather lowered my expectation on webauthors' education in
orthography...
Martin
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