tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56779282009-08-14T04:12:32.319-07:00miss spelling weblogcommon misspellingsGeraldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06080451549793141742noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5677928.post-51037134061706348252008-03-25T17:54:00.000-07:002008-03-25T18:49:55.729-07:00ebay misspellingEbay 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 Geraldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06080451549793141742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5677928.post-54196759897234642332007-09-21T16:58:00.000-07:002007-09-21T16:59:12.775-07:00misspellingDefinition 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 "Geraldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06080451549793141742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5677928.post-1126270278666064582005-09-09T05:48:00.000-07:002005-09-09T05:51:18.673-07:00What 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?Geraldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06080451549793141742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5677928.post-1123259610152066942005-08-05T09:29:00.000-07:002005-08-05T09:43:14.856-07:00The Most Often Misspelled Words in EnglishThe 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!Geraldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06080451549793141742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5677928.post-1102286304690534582004-12-05T14:35:00.000-08:002004-12-05T14:38:24.690-08:00Google and MisspideringStrange 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.
Geraldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06080451549793141742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5677928.post-1097277365620466662004-10-08T16:09:00.000-07:002004-10-08T16:16:05.620-07:00definition of misspelling via wikipediaMisspelling refers to spelling a word incorrectly. Misspelling is distinguished from other errors in writing, such as grammatical errors, incorrect capitalization or misuse of punctuation. A misspelled word can be a series of letters ...
Have a look at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia in order to read the full article.
Geraldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06080451549793141742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5677928.post-1094324459278736972004-09-04T11:53:00.000-07:002004-09-04T12:00:59.276-07:00word recognition at microsoft researchA very interesting article from microsoft research named The Science of Word Recognition. Learn about the different theories on how humans read - Word Shape, Serial Letter Recognition and Parallel Letter Recognition. Fascinating.
Geraldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06080451549793141742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5677928.post-1087567249727126812004-06-18T06:50:00.000-07:002004-06-18T07:13:18.263-07:00first result of the bachlor experimentHere you can see the first result of our little bachlor experiment some weeks ago. The site went up from position 9 to 3 in google search results for the search phrase online bachlor degree. Not impressive, but a nice move that shows that one missing/additional letter can make quite a big difference in search engine worlds :)
Geraldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06080451549793141742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5677928.post-1083335871872039662004-04-30T07:37:00.000-07:002004-04-30T07:41:42.653-07:00Bachlor or Bachlors, that's the questionNot every mistyping or misspelling happens by accident, some of this typing errors happen with intent to search engine optimization efforts. For example, the following link online bachlor degree should help to raise the position in the google results for the keyphrase "online bachlor degree". And in order to enhance another page for the plural "online bachlor degrees", it makes sense to give it aGeraldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06080451549793141742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5677928.post-1079645808441717972004-03-18T13:36:00.000-08:002004-03-18T13:39:25.513-08:00SuchmaschienenAuch im Deutschen gibt es nette Rechtschreibfehler - einer der beliebteren ist die Schreibweise Suchmaschienen. Ein paar Hinweise zur Häufigkeit und ein paar weitere Infos bringt der folgende Suchmaschienen Beitrag.Geraldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06080451549793141742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5677928.post-1072471539293844432003-12-26T12:45:00.000-08:002003-12-26T12:47:33.530-08:00Marry Christmess and a Heppy New Yaer!I wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year ;-)Geraldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06080451549793141742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5677928.post-1063746809098425872003-09-16T14:13:00.000-07:002003-09-19T16:25:54.173-07:00Scrmabeld TxetJeremy pointed out a nice script made by jwz that's related to a nice story about misspellings: "Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey Geraldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06080451549793141742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5677928.post-1063564328217317932003-09-14T11:32:00.000-07:002004-09-04T12:40:34.350-07:00goggle
The keyword goggle is a very common misspelling for google, the world's greatest and most famous search engine. The misspelling is based on a misspeaking resp. mishearing of the original word. Google descends from googol, which is 10 to the 100th power (which is the figure 1 followed by 100 zeros). Geraldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06080451549793141742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5677928.post-1062674789185297672003-09-04T04:26:00.000-07:002003-09-04T04:34:12.603-07:00eaby
The keyword eaby is a very common misspelling for ebay, the world's greatest online auction company. The misspelling is based on a permutation of two characters.Geraldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06080451549793141742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5677928.post-1060811909374747362003-08-13T14:58:00.000-07:002004-06-18T07:24:52.770-07:00Miss Spelling presents some misspellings. Among other things we will show that even a misspelling at educational promotion sites like http://www.online-accredited-degrees.org or http://www.online-masters-degree.org makes sense.Geraldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06080451549793141742noreply@blogger.com