that's so sad. but i shall hold out hope until Webster's gives in and adds "alot" to the dictionary.
i tried "desiccate" but was pleased to discover that only about a third of websites that use that word misspell it. then i couldn't think of anything else to try.
See, this is fine except that "loose" isn't a misspelling unless it's in the context of what you did with your keys, at which point I start wailing on the author with a nail-studded baseball bat.
That's going to be rough, since I'm guessing most online typos and misspellings are homonymous, courtesy of electronic spellcheckers. "They're" and "their", for example.
I took a stab at this for a while, using Wikipedia's common list of misspellings (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_common_misspellings) as a reference, but got tired. Most misspellings were, at best, one tenth as popular as their correct spellings. Only supersede and variants got close; about one fourth as popular.
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Date: 2004-10-05 03:55 pm (UTC)Results 1 - 10 of about 14,800,000 for "a lot"
Results 1 - 10 of about 46,700,000 for "alot"
I tried "mischievous" and various flavors of "misspell" before finding a winnah.
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Date: 2004-10-05 04:14 pm (UTC)that's so sad. but i shall hold out hope until Webster's gives in and adds "alot" to the dictionary.
i tried "desiccate" but was pleased to discover that only about a third of websites that use that word misspell it. then i couldn't think of anything else to try.
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Date: 2004-10-05 04:31 pm (UTC)Or maybe I'm just bitter.
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Date: 2004-10-05 04:28 pm (UTC)Did you mean: warez
Results 1 - 10 of about 1,880,000 for warez [definition]. (0.11 seconds)
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Date: 2004-10-05 05:00 pm (UTC)Results 1 - 10 of about 69,100,000 for colour
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Date: 2004-10-05 05:08 pm (UTC)Curses, you beat me to it.
Date: 2004-10-05 11:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-05 05:20 pm (UTC)I took a stab at this for a while, using Wikipedia's common list of misspellings (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_common_misspellings) as a reference, but got tired. Most misspellings were, at best, one tenth as popular as their correct spellings. Only supersede and variants got close; about one fourth as popular.
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Date: 2004-10-05 09:35 pm (UTC)chaise longue 49,900
Somehow this occurred to me when I looked up "tounge" (very popular but not outnumbering the correct spelling).
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