[Wikipedia-l] Re: An idea

[Ray Saintonge]

Gregory Maxwell wrote:

>On 5/28/05, Timwi <timwi at gmx.net> wrote:
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>>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".
>
That sounds like an internet equivalent of a badly arranged sound system 
in an auditorium.  With this message there will be 172,001 google hits.

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