ich kann auch deutsch speaken

lange nichts mehr gepostet. schade, eigentlich ein nettes thema. rechtschreibfehler und typos aller arten sind eine wissenschaft für sich. leider fehlt mir die zeit das thema so intensiv zu studieren, wie ich das gerne möchte. und natürlich ist hierbei auch die sprache weitgehend irrelevant, insofern kann ich auch einfach mal deutsch speaken. fällt mir auch leichter.

eipott vs ipod

in germany i heard about a strange story that happend to a company named koziol. this company develops product designs, and one of their products was an eggcup named EiPott. As the word EiPott has the same pronounciation in german language than the word iPod, the famous apple brand, Apple filed a law suit against koziol for trademark infringement.

ebay misspelling

Ebay is one of the most common search terms in the world wide web. Misspellings of ebay like eaby or ebey are popular too. You do not find misspellings in web search - you even find them in title & item descriptions in ebay auctions. Finding such eBay spelling mistakes can help you to save a lot of money. But it takes time to search for them.

The free service named auctionspeller will search for the most common misspellings and typos.

misspelling

Definition from the Wikipedia:

While some words admit multiple spellings, some spellings are clearly incorrect and thus labeled as misspellings. A misspelled word can be a series of letters that represents no correctly spelled word of the same language at all (such as "liek" for "like") or a correct spelling of another word (such as writing "here" when one means "hear", or "now" when one means "know"). Misspellings of the latter type can easily make their way into printed material because they are not caught by simple computerized spell checkers.

Misspellings may be due to either typos (e.g. typing teh for the), or lack of knowledge of the correct spelling. Whether or not a word is misspelled may depend on context, such as American / British English distinctions. Misspelling can also be a matter of opinion when variant spellings are accepted by some and not by others. For example "miniscule" (for "minuscule") is a misspelling to many, and yet it is listed as a legitimate variant in a number of dictionaries.

What do I do if my child misspells a lot of words?

Some expert advice from scholastic.com to the question What do I do if my child misspells a lot of words?

The Most Often Misspelled Words in English

The Alpha Dictionary Site presents a list of the words most often misspelled:
The Most Often Misspelled Words in English.

By the way, I just realized that Miss Spelling is working at their site, presenting Miss Spelling's Ultimate Spelling Exercise. Come on - give it a try!

Google and Misspidering

Strange behaviour of Google. The index page of this site has been dropped from the Google Index. Is it a kind of mis-spidering, mis-crawling or mis-indexing??? I don't know, but it is at least mis-terious.