[Wikipedia-l] Mispeelings

tarquin tarquin at planetunreal.com
Sat Oct 19 00:01:52 UTC 2002


I shamefully admit to mistyping "seperate" on occasions. Funny thing is 
I spell it correctly in longhand. Unfortunately I have very lazy fingers 
which find hitting "e" twice easier. :(

could we add "it's" to the 3-letter words we can search for?
That's a *very* common error.

Derek Ross wrote:

>Welcome to the Wikipedia Gardening club, Ed.  We may not be as sexy as the
>Militia but there's always plenty weeding to keep us busy!
>
>I must admit that I haven't checked out "separate" for a while but there are
>always plenty of similar "weeds" to find.  "suprising" and "comittee" to
>name but two.  I like Magnus's idea for Yet Another Special Page working off
>Wikipedia:Typos though.  Automated finding isn't the complete answer but it
>would be a very useful tool.
>






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