[Wikipedia-l] Common typos (was: Tucci528)

[Ray Saintonge]

tarquin wrote:

> Ray Saintonge wrote:
>
>>
>> BTW By using the search function I found three articles with 
>> "recieve" in them, just in case you were looking for something to do.
>>
> I've been pondering.
> There are some typos and common spelling mistakes which are 
> no-brainers to catch and fix, but require a lot of grunt work.
> Would it be possible, or desirable, to have a system which does a 
> search for one particular error at a time, eg "recieve", and corrects 
> all the pages it finds in batches, of say 20, to avoid loading the 
> server?

Would we use an American or British spell-checker?