I would be wary of taking frequency of misspelling as an indication of "correctness".
Witness the following Google counts: Amateur (correct): 52,300,000 Amature: 2,800,000 Amatuer: 2,660,000 Ameteur: 619,000 Ameture: 941,000 Ametuer: 574,000 Here's a common misspelling at > %10 Collectible (correct): 26,900,000 Collectable: 4,140,000 More targets at http://www.yourdictionary.com/library/misspelled.html (BTW, one can find a list of "commonly misspelt wods" using Google :-) -- Tony Plate (Ted Harding) wrote: > 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 > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
