Yet the methodology of my prior post seems to pick out the correct one: a <- c(Amateur = 52300000, Amature = 2800000, Amatuer = 2660000, Ameteur = 619000, Ameture = 941000, Ametuer = 574000) plot(lm(log(a) ~ 1), which = 2)
On 12/8/05, Tony Plate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
