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Oct. 5th, 2004 02:59 pm
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Via Google, find a typo or misspelling that is more common that the correctly spelled word.

Date: 2004-10-05 05:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wisn.livejournal.com
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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