Gregory Maxwell wrote:
On 5/28/05, Timwi timwi@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".
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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