[Wikipedia-l] Re: An idea

[Gregory Maxwell]

On 5/28/05, Timwi <timwi at gmx.net> wrote:
> I highly doubt that.  Although he might be a _world-renowned_ expert.
> Throughout the past week, I have fixed on the order of one hundred
> articles with that spelling mistake in them.
> 
> And here I am trying very hard to understand how someone can think that
> a word that is pronounced the way "renowned" is, can possibly have a k
> in it.  It is not even pronounced anything like "know" or "knowledge".
> Furthermore, as "gnostic" versus "agnostic" clearly teaches us, letters
> do not tend to become silent when there is a prefix before them.

172,000 google hits says that one day we will consider it a valid
spelling of something. :)
Lots of places you would expect to be spellchecked contain "reknowned".