On 08-Dec-05 Martin Maechler wrote: >>>>>> "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 > Torsten> Cambridge Encyclopaedia', so I can't check > Torsten> either. Google has 74.900 hits for `Gibralta' > Torsten> (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
Hmmm ... Using my Google's "Results ... of about xxx": Gibraltar 50,700,000 Gibralta 75,200 Gibraltr 573 Gibralar 836 Gibratar 1,020 Gibrltar 349 Gibaltar 1,850 Giraltar 530 Gbraltar 352 ibralter 576 I'm not proposing to get exhaustive about this, but a few further experiments suggest that other specific typos are typically O(500) in frequency: Gibralatar 589 Gibrlatar 618 Gibrltar 349 Gobraltar 652 So -- if anyone can find a typo of "Gibraltar" which googles to more than 5000 hits (excepting "Gibralta")? Best wishes, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 08-Dec-05 Time: 18:58:04 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
