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- exobyte, on 10/12/2007, -3/+46Most of them are just names. What's sad isn't the misspelling. What's sad is that so many people look up Britney Spears.
- dshPls, on 10/12/2007, -3/+46Why do people spell "loser" as "looser"?
The only way that word works is when you say something "like your gf is looser than mine..."
Yet I see someone spell this wrong everyday, but the next biggest offender is "rediculious." - theorb77, on 10/12/2007, -3/+24What's really sad is that the author misspelled the word "misspelled". I mean, if you're going to link us to a story on misspelling searches, perhaps your first step might be to check your own spelling. Maybe that's just what I think.
No, it's not some kind of implicit joke. Any joke would at least give the reader some kind of a "wink" (like, "ha ha", yes I know what I did there). - mutatron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19Maybe he meant mis-pelled.
pell
Pell, v. t. [Cf. Pelt, v. t.] To pelt; to knock about. [Obs.] --Holland. - mutatron, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20Seems like some misspellings are recently common. Like "looser", "rediculous", "to" instead of "too", "your" instead of "you're".
People are having a lot of problems with apostrophes nowadays, especially with "its" and "it's". But confoundingly, I sometimes type "it's" when I'm typing quickly. But why? Reflexive spelling? - berwiki, on 10/12/2007, -8/+24Incorrect (Correct)
1. Rachel Ray (Rachael Ray)
2. Tatoos (Tattoos)
3. Scarlett Johanson (Scarlett Johansson)
4. Wierd Al Yankovic (Weird Al Yankovic)
5. Evanesence (Evanescence)
6. Soduku (Sudoku)
7. Barbara Streisand (Barbra Streisand)
8. Louis Vitton (Louis Vuitton)
9. Jamie Presley (Jaime Pressly)
10. Jimmy Buffet (Jimmy Buffett)
11. Brittany Spears (Britney Spears)
12. Brittney Spears (ibid)
13. Anna Nichole Smith (Anna Nicole Smith)
14. Eva Mendez (Eva Mendes)
15. Jessica Beil (Jessica Biel)
16. The Biggest Looser (The Biggest Loser)
17. Jennifer Anniston (Jennifer Aniston)
18. Marie Antionette (Marie Antoinette)
19. Mercedez Benz (Mercedes Benz)
20. Micheal Jordan (Michael Jordan) - toxicredm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16@mutatron:
The two biggest ones I've seen lately are than and then. I'm constantly seeing these two words used almost interchangeably. - mattyxo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17#4 Wierd Al Yankovic -> (Weird Al Yankovic)
#5 The Biggest Looser -> (The Biggest Loser)
What happened to elementary school when we learned these rules? Looser? Wierd?
And to anyone who's thinking "well it's just a search query, who cares": I agree. Not a big deal. But I see this in essays, from English majors... adults who complain about teenagers being illiterate... journalists in established newspapers (The Sun to name one). This is just proof of how lazy or incompetent or downright illiterate our society has become. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16people still use Yahoo?
- whitehatlurker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12"Brittany spears" is a perfectly valid search. You just don't realise how many fans there are of medieval French weaponry.
- kennethn, on 10/12/2007, -5/+15Pretty sanitized - where's "beastiality" (bestiality)?
- Radian, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Seems to be a lot of confusion here on Digg with you're & your. If English is you're first language, than ewe should really learn the difference.
I've also recently seen board/bored, metal/medal, they're/their problems... makes me glad I had good teachers growing up.
That & the fact that I was always following in the footsteps of my über-smart older sister. - themarq, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10bookakee
- mindzero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I like the variations of Britney Spears from google better:
http://www.google.com/jobs/britney.html - mindtrap, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Look it up:
http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/Ibid - fluxion, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11rules like, say...
"i" before "e", except after "c"? - Tomnibus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10I swear, it grates on my nerves when people write "loose" when they mean "lose".
- mutatron, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Oh yeah, forgot about than and then. That one drives me nuts, and it is recent I'm sure. How hard could it be to get those right? But then, a lot of people pronounce them the same.
- cell00, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Holy crap, they get Yankovic right, but they can't spell weird?
- jacksmash, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7My biggest complaint is lose being spelled loose. I worked for a very large corporation and they even had it misspelled on their homepage. I'm not the greatest speller in the world and I can even get it right.
- theorb77, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7@kigabit
My pet peeve is the "Your/You're" flip-flop. I don't know how many times I've seen someone whip out the ol' highbrow "your stupid" rebuttal but it has been enough to permanently screw with my ability to select the contraction in the correct context. - Nougat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7No kidding:
"btitiney spears"
I think there must be a lot of people using the internet who type with stumps. - kkuphal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7The irony here is the original poster misspelled the word misspell.
- ChaserHimself, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Who the hell searches for Anna Nicole Smith??
- invader, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8you loosers are to rediculous about you're hole grammer thing.
- mutatron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6A friend of mine is writing a program he hopes will be able to understand natural language commands. I thought it would be a daunting task until I remembered that the average English newspaper only uses 6000 distinct words.
Look at what people are struggling with compared to the amount of data in a typical database - it's piddling! And of those 6000 most common words, only some dozens are irregular or homophonic, yet people still are unable to remember when to use "their", "they're", and "there".
Human intelligence seems overrated, for the most part. - MasterFunk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I do find it funny how Weird Al fans can spell his last name correctly, but fail to spell "weird" right.
- jonnyfatman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Oh how ironic. The submitter could not spell 'misspelled'.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9who cares, even this website is spelled wrong. Digg? that is just rediculous, and you are all loosers.
- Nougat, on 10/12/2007, -8/+13sp: bury
- kigabit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4@ tygerclaw
That would apply to "wierd," but "looser" is a valid word, and a spell checker wouldn't flag it. Same case with "they're," "there," and "their." That one seems to confound a lot of people too.
@ fluxion
That's a "rule of thumb." There are irregular words in most languages. - toxicredm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5@Azur2:
It makes sense that the most searched terms will also be the most often misspelled. - TimothyStickles, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5This arun't funy at all. Yahoo is stuped loosers!
- mecole21, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5where is pron?
- ippersiel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5If you click on Scarlett Johanson (Scarlett Johansson) you get the Yahoo results except the word used to do the search has scarlett johnansson in the field. I guess Yahoo! employees can't spell her name either :)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5dig (digg)
digged (dugg)
dupe (just stop saying that word) - vocaro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4And don't forget mixing up "it's" and "its". I see that all the time.
"Firefox is web browsing at it's best." WRONG
Remember:
if ("it is" or "it has") then subst("it's") else print("its") // Is that so hard? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Not only are most of them names. Most of the names are of scantily dressed young women. Or not dressed at all.
It's reassuring to see that the net hasn't changed as much as everyone says. - Nougat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=pron&btnG=Google+Search
- scuzzman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@Jwoey
Always thought it was:
"I before E, except after C, or when sounding like A as in neighbor and weigh"
Never really thought about it being after W before... just kinda always habit to spell weird like it should be... - rolawson, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5It was clearly a joke...
- wildgift, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Barbra Streisand is probably the only well-known person who spells it "Barbra" instead of "Barbara",
- FanofFilm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"Their crawler has also been proven to go deeper then google's."
Just to shamelessly pull this back to the point of the topic, maybe you'd like toxicredm's first post above. - Klarth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2*Badly
- Phatt138, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Wild:
As unfortunate as it may be, I think that you're absolutely wrong. Email and chat have become socially 'acceptable' times to misspell anything and everything, while the prevalence of automatic spell-checking and the ubiquity of abbreviations have further estranged people from their native language. Even the 'grammar Nazis' on Digg more than likely use the built-in spellcheck function to ensure perfection (I personally check words that I'm unsure of against a dictionary widget, manually; at least it keeps me on my toes). I would hardly say that the grammarians are 'winning.' Tools like Google and spellchecks correct without intervention from the user, ensuring that they'll -never- learn to spell 'decision' correctly.
However, I doubt that our situation's any worse now than it's ever been. Notably, everyone (excepting those with some kind of mental or physical disorder) can -speak- in their native tongue, but few can stand up to the scrutiny of the written word. The only difference today is that the online community is exposed to more writing from more people, while the ratio of 'fluency' to 'vague familiarity' is probably the same as it's always been. If everyone was forced to scrawl their innermost thoughts and opinions on signs for the whole world to see, we'd probably notice the same trends. Ever seen a bathroom wall? Not the most heady conversation.
That being said, people who are constantly being chided for their poor grammar and spelling need to 'pony up' and learn the damned language. Typos are one thing, but obvious ignorance undermines the worth of your statements and makes you 'sound' uninformed. - QuackQuack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Dee-lish!
- Yashu, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Yes. Their results are often more accurate than google. Less tainted by page after page of worthless spam.
Their crawler has also been proven to go deeper then google's.
Google may be fast at some things, but the adword spam is starting to make obscure searching pretty difficult, if not impossible (1000 hit limit, remember... and you might easily get spam throughout most of that). There seems to be spam for any word combination you can come up with these days.
Yahoo can sometimes be a little better, although their main search page sucks a fat one. Why can't they provide a simple search page like google?
"people still use Yahoo? "
Only noobs stick to a single engine. - thewaz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Definitely. (not definately)
- JackyTreehorn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Yeah. I want to drown her in a vat of EVOO.
- sanza, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I use google as a dictionary just about every day. Type something close and you get an answer:
"Did you mean: radioimmunoassay" -
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